Like glass
In the first part of ‘’Christian Bérard’’, the narrator transmits the idea that love is extremely powerful, comparing it with lightning to show just how powerful it is. The way in which love is presented transmits the idea that love is invincible, something which will never disappear, no matter the hardships it has to endure. Ironically, at the end of the story, love is compared with another element, this time with glass, to show just how fragile and easy to destroy love is. This makes the first assumption redundant as the narrator makes a compelling argument when it comes to proving the fragile nature of love.
To bow or not to bow
In "How She Bowed to Her Brother’’, the narrator tells the story of a sister who wanted to be respected by her brother and who had the habit of bowing to him as a sign of respect and as an attempt to make him do the same. This however did not yielded any result until, ironically, the sister decided to stop bowing and then the brother realized he must show his sister the same respect she showed him in the past.
Not so new
The first impression the reader gets upon reading the title of the play ‘’New’’ is that the subject discussed in the play will have everything to do with things which are related in one way or another with the present time. Ironically, the subject of the story has nothing to do with the present and with the idea of new but rather with the past and how can a person deal with unwanted memories.
They are not fierce at all
The play "Yet Dish’’ starts with the narrator describing a few soldiers she was during her life. While describing them, the narrator creates an image of kind and even feminine soldiers, opposite from the way they are usually portrayed by the rest of the world. The narrator continues to present the soldiers as such, even agreeing that the image she is presenting is an ironic one, especially when comparing it with the way in which soldiers are usually portrayed.
We feel more comfortable now
Towards the middle of the story "The Work’’, the narrator analyzes the way in which the war changes the lives of many people who were in the countries which were taken over by other countries during the war. The narrator described the state which existed before the war and after the war and one of the ironical ideas is that the narrator claims she and her family felt more comfortable during the middle of the world, an extremely violent time, in comparison with the way they felt in the beginning of the war.
