"He always tells the children the story of how I went after him by sitting by the mailbox every day..." (pg. 146)
Throughout the story, the reader believes that Edie will end up with Chris. He seems so charming and heroic. Of course, she is immediately infatuated with him. However, his fiancee shows up, and at that point, she should have become skeptical. This just shows her naivete. The mailman is just assumed to be another minor character and not at all important to the plot. This is situational irony because throughout the entire story, the plot seems to be pushing Edie and Chris together. However, in the last chapter, it is revealed that her husband is in fact the mailman, thus creating the surprise ending.
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