The sentence that best describes the irony in the excerpt is the following:
Instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law, mrs. Crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter.
<h3>Reading comprehension exercise: The life you save may be your own</h3>
In this exercise, you have to read the short story <em>The life you save may be your own</em> written by the American author Flannery O'Connor.
The short story is about a drifter that meets an old lady and her daughter with disabilities in an isolated farm where they live.
O'Connor usually has morality as a main topic in his short stories.
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