Irony can affect a story in many ways. It can change our minds on how we feel towards something and irony can have a big impact. Example in the gift of magi when della sells her hair for jim to buy the watch fob for him, we go through the whole story in suspense thinking that jim would hate how she looks and be really mad at her because of how valuable the hair was to him. But in the end of the story we find out that jim sold his watch which had vaule to him to buy combs for dellas hair but because della sold her hair they had no use. It’s ironic twists like that, that have the power to impact and possibly even change the entire
