Let us remember that irony is defined as the gap between
appearance and reality and how it is exploited. There is an excellent example of
situational irony at the beginning of this scene when Amanda comes back into the
appartment and surprises Laura when she is polishing and cleaning her glass menagerie.
Note Laura's reaction when she greets her mother:
Hello, Mother, I was-- (She makes a
nervous gesture toward the chart on the wall. AMANDA leans against the shut door and
stared at LAURA with a martyred
look.)
What is
ironic about this section of the play is that Laura pretends to be busy working at her
typewriting course, when she has given that up months ago. However, Laura doesn't know
that such gestures are completely unnecessary because her mother has just gone to her
college where Laura is supposedly studying and found out the truth. Laura cannot pretend
to be working hard on her studies any more.
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