"My brave little man!" she said with her eyes shining. "It was God did it you were there. You were his guardian angel." (351)
For this blog, I will be addressing the irony in the short story, "The Drunkard" by Frank O'Connor. The first irony I noticed was the title. The drunkard is the father, and he is not even the one who gets drunk. The son gets drunk while he is supposed to be making sure his father doesn't do just that. This is the other piece of irony. The son is supposed to keep his father from getting drunkbecause he needs to be able to work tomorrow and has trouble controlling himself after the first drink. The son, Larry, gets drunk on his father's alcohol. The father gets mad at his son for what he did, but in reality, his son saved. The mother would have been much more mad if her husband was drunk because he wouldn't be able to earn money for the family. With the boy drunk, he can just lay around until he recovers.
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