Locking the door instead of asking for help
It is situational irony that A locked his door when he realized that a corpse was lying on his floor instead of asking for help. In the situation, locking the door and staying with the corpse until nighttime might have incriminated him and it was very uncomfortable for him because he was being framed for the murder of a person that he did not know.
Irony of proving innocence
It is ironic that it was difficult for A to prove his innocence. This is because someone had dropped the dead man in his apartment block and left him the burden of proving that he had not committed the murder. He claimed that proving innocence was much more difficult than proving guilt.
Dumping a dead body in someone’s apartment
It is a situational irony that the murderer of the corpse left him in another apartment. The burden of the death was passed on to another person. When A was considering what to do about the body, he also wanted to dump it in one of the apartments of his neighbors and pass the burden along.
The Lights
It is ironic that A did not know whether to turn on his lights and announce that he was home or keep them off so that he could secure his alibi that he was not home. This is ironic because such as simple everyday act could incriminate him for the murder.
A and his neighbor’s lack of a relationship
A described his neighbor as a salesperson of a welding company and also said that they had only exchanged the occasional glances when they ran into each other in the bath but they had never exchanged words. It is situational irony that they lived in the same block, they had seen each other and they had never had a conversation.
