“Proud of the odor of Corruption” - “The Street of Crocodiles”
The narrator observes: “The inhabitants of the city are quite proud of the odor of corruption emanating from the Street of Crocodiles.’ There is no need for us to go short of anything’, they say proudly to themselves.” The residents’ pride in corruption is ironic considering that corruption is an objectionable depravity. The ironic pride conjectures that corruption is a customary essential of the habitants’ presence; hence, they would not discontinue it; the residents are gratified with the decadence which corruption personifies. Accordingly, an individual who does not countersign corruption would seem deviant there, and his or her subsistence would be knotty.
“Ease with which she had recovered from my Father’s death” - “Cockroaches”
The narrator expounds, “I had hidden resentment against my mother for the ease with which she had recovered from Father’s death. She had never loved him,” The narrator’s surveillance concerning his mother is ironic; the mother suppresses her emotions to the extent that the narrator would not discriminate that his mother is not wounded by the father’s departure. Had the mother categorically recovered, she would not have been tortured each time the narrator queried whether the ‘condor’ was an incarnation of his father; the mother’s grief is seamlessly obscured.
