Doomed
According to Lenny Abramov, children are “lovely and fresh in their youth.” They are absolutely oblivious, “blind to mortality.” All of them are “sweet fawns”, “gleaming in their dreamy plasticity.” Unfortunately, they are all doomed. “A brief almost-century later”, they will be busy “drooling on some pure Mexican nursemaid in an Arizona hospice.” This irony reveal Lenny’s true feelings towards children. He doesn’t admire how lovely and fresh they are but is jealous of their blindness to mortality. Unlike him, they don’t have to worry about growing old.
Guilty
Lenny witnessed a scene in which “a recently arrived American girl, a yoga teacher to the stars” was being “reduced to tears by a much older local woman.” The latter kept “stabbing her in the heart with one long, pointed fingernail” and “accusing her, personally, of the U.S. invasion of Venezuela.” The irony of it was that the said yoga teacher could hardly do a thing to prevent the U.S. invasion of any country.
A sweet girl
Lenny thought that Eunice should be grateful to him for saving her from a drunken artist. However, he was rather surprised to find out that “sweet, hurt Korean” emits “a bit of anger.” The irony of that situation was that it was Lenny who decided that she was sweet and hurt. He didn’t know her well enough to make this assumption.
