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... Auden, in his short verses, puts the reader into the “Isn’t it ironic that…” mental state. ... The “Isn’t it ironic that…” state also enables the reader to start thinking on a deeper level. ...
Now, in the “Glass Menagerie”, Tennessee Williams also uses this same approach for grabbing the reader’s attention and pushing them into thinking that he story is ironic in its whole. Although Tennessee Williams does not use the first lines of the play to set the ironic tone, he does place his accounting for the old times in the second paragraph, which in all actuality is the beginning of the telling of Tom’s tale. ...
Once the central theme is planted in the readers mind, the truly ironic happenings are able to occur. ... Auden transitions from one ironic situation to another, until the end of the poem when he puts everything into perspective with the example of the ship’s reaction to the falling of Icarus. ...
JIM: You shouldn’t have been self-conscious” (Tennessee Williams Scene 7). ... When Jim says that Laura should not have been self conscious it shows how ironic Laura’s distorted self-image was of no avail. ... How ironic is the fact that everyone constantly worries about what others will think, yet in their own worries are truly thinking about themselves? ... Now all the reader must do is see how ironic his or her worries, actions, and life in general is and see if they can do anything to change this behavior.
Approximate Word count = 1291
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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