All 8 Uses of
irony
in
The Things They Carried
- When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself.†
Chpt 1
- The ironies went beyond him.
Chpt 10ironies = things that are very different than what might be expected
- No doubt Max would've liked it, the irony in particular, but Max had become a pure idea, which was its own irony.†
Chpt 15
- No doubt Max would've liked it, the irony in particular, but Max had become a pure idea, which was its own irony.†
Chpt 15
- The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference.†
Chpt 16
- He coughed and shook his head and said, "Man, talk about irony.†
Chpt 17
- Eating shit-it's your classic irony.†
Chpt 17
- "Wasted in the waste," he said. "... You got to admit, it's pure world-class irony."
Chpt 17 *irony = an amusing coincidence