Theme Of Irony In The Yellow Sweater

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How to be Trustworthy Through various forms of irony in The Yellow Sweater, Hugh Garner portrays trust being too easily acquired by vulnerability. Marie was living with her aunt and he aunt’s husband. She did not refer to him as her uncle or step uncle, which would mean some unpleasant history, was there. Also, when asked about him by Tom, Marie replied with, “I hate him!” (26). Marie also had trouble with a boy- presumably her ex-boyfriend. After having all of these issues with the males in her life, one could see how a nice man who helped her out in her time of need- her vulnerability to trusting a man of something so little, was so big. This is ironic because during their car ride, Tom took her out into the forest with an intension entirely different than her own, which was similar to her…show more content…
“Just leave me alone! Bernice! Bernice!” (31), is an ironic quote Marie has at the end of the short story. It sounds as if she would yell her aunt’s name whenever she was about to be assaulted, but it also sounds as if she was pleading for her life at the farm back. She trusted Tom too much that the life she once dreaded, was where she wanted to be. The second form of irony Hugh Garner portrays in The Yellow Sweater is through Tom. Toward the beginning of the short story, Tom was complaining why the government was not doing anything to stop hitchhikers from mooching car rides from tax paying citizens. After his thoughts, he came across Marie, but instead of complaining about what she is doing like he had with the others, he picked her up. Tom picked Marie up because he thought she was attractive and he could have fun with her. For some little reason in his head, he thought the feeling was mutual and Tom trusted the “mutual” feeling the two of them had, and since it was not, Tom was vulnerable from humility
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