Throughout the story of The Open Window, Saki uses irony. Saki uses a few different types of irony in places all through the story; infact, Saki uses all three types of irony in this story. Saki uses verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this story so that it keeps the reader interested and entertained throughout. One of the three ways that saki uses irony in this story is naming Mrs. Sappleton’s niece Vera. This is a form of verbal irony, which is the use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean. the stem in the name vera means truth; although, if the reader pays attention to the story they find out that telling the truth is the exact opposite of what Vera does. In this story Vera tells a lie to Mr. Nuttel
