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Definition of Irony
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this seems like a loose definition... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how... read full definition
Key Examples in Girl, Interrupted
Chapter 13: Ice Cream
Explanation and Analysis—Suicide Weather:
Chapter 13 begins with the following instance of situational irony, introducing Daisy's suicide:
It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. Daisy had killed herself the week before.
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Chapter 25: Calais is Engraved on My Heart
Explanation and Analysis—Alice's New Face:
When Susanna and the other girls visit Alice Calais in maximum security solitary confinement in Chapter 25, they find her and her room covered in her own feces. Kaysen recalls the scene using situational irony that doubles as unreliable narration:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Alice looked like somebody else, as if she’d gotten a new face. She looked kind of good.
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