In "The Blizzard", fate serves as the guarantor of irony. In what appears to be a moderately satirical version of Romantic fiction, the protagonist ends up not with the man she loves, but the man she married while trying to marry the man that she loved. In other words they were meant to be together. A typical Romantic storyline often goes one of two ways: the man and woman marry and live happily ever after, or one or more lover dies tragically. The efficacy of Pushkin's satire is to invent a circumstance where both scenarios take place: the woman's (first) lover dies tragically, but she still gets her man in the end.