as she went down the path he started to close the closet door; then paused as he remembered his hunting boots drying outside on the porch. they belonged in the closet, so leaving the door open he went to fetch them from the heavy, rustic table on which they stood, along with his bag and top coat. alec was coming up from the lake and waved to him from a distance. a chipmunk, hearing judsons heavy tread, abandoned the acorn he was about to add to his store within the cabin wall and disappeared, like an electric bulb burning out. judson, reaching for his boots, stepped fairly upon the acorn, his foot slid from under him and his head struck the massive table as he fell. several minutes later he began to regain his senses. alecs strong arm was supporting his head as he lay on the porch and a kindly voice was saying: warnt much of a fall, mr. webb. you arent cut none; jest knocked out for a minute. here, take this; itll pull you together.\ a small whiskey glass was pressed to his lips. dazed and half - conscious, he drank.
uthless\ by william demille, from the anthology 50 short stories: an omnibus of short stories, edited by mary anne howard (1945), is in the public domain. 1. paragraphs 27 - 29: why is the resolution of
uthless\ an example of both dramatic irony and situational irony?

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as she went down the path he started to close the closet door; then paused as he remembered his hunting boots drying outside on the porch. they belonged in the closet, so leaving the door open he went to fetch them from the heavy, rustic table on which they stood, along with his bag and top coat. alec was coming up from the lake and waved to him from a distance. a chipmunk, hearing judsons heavy tread, abandoned the acorn he was about to add to his store within the cabin wall and disappeared, like an electric bulb burning out. judson, reaching for his boots, stepped fairly upon the acorn, his foot slid from under him and his head struck the massive table as he fell. several minutes later he began to regain his senses. alecs strong arm was supporting his head as he lay on the porch and a kindly voice was saying: 	warnt much of a fall, mr. webb. you arent cut none; jest knocked out for a minute. here, take this; itll pull you together.\ a small whiskey glass was pressed to his lips. dazed and half - conscious, he drank.
uthless\ by william demille, from the anthology 50 short stories: an omnibus of short stories, edited by mary anne howard (1945), is in the public domain. 1. paragraphs 27 - 29: why is the resolution of
uthless\ an example of both dramatic irony and situational irony?

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# Brief Explanations:
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows more than the characters. In "Ruthless", perhaps the audience is aware of some underlying danger or situation that Judson is not, which makes his actions and the outcome more ironic. Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected happens. Judson goes to get his boots, a normal - seeming action, but instead of a simple task, he has an accident and gets knocked out. This is the opposite of what he (or the reader) would expect from such a mundane action.
# Answer:
The resolution shows dramatic irony as the audience may have knowledge that the character lacks, and situational irony as the outcome of Judson's simple action of retrieving his boots is the opposite of what is expected (an accident instead of a routine task completion).

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