Analysis of Irony in “The Drunkard” by Frank O’ Connor Essay Example

her's drinking habit, and in a way succeeds, although not in the way one would infer. He drinks all of his dad's beer in the bar, because he became curious as to why his father would drink. The son's drinking quickly becomes the story's primary source of humor and irony, hen it is he, not his father, that is drunk and yelling profanity that is stereotypical of an adult drunk.

To further the irony his mother thanks him for stopping his father's drinking unknowingly, by his embarrassment of his father in the street. The short story is poking fun at human curiosity, and how people often try to prevent something, only to become part of it. At the end of the story it is revealed that Mice hadn't even had a sip of alcohol, revealing that Larry succeeded i