Irony is the major key factor in the author's voice in the story. In the story she drops many different ironic situations. When the family left for the trip the Grandmother brought her cat, because she would worry about the cat's safety if she left it at home for three days. In a crazy turn of events the cat caused the family to get in the car accident. Which led to them meeting the misfit. Another situation was the trip to Florida. The Grandmother never wanted to go to Florida but wanted to go to Tennessee. She tried to tell the family that they should not go there because there is an escaped murderer on the lose. When the family gets into an accident and is comforted by the misfit and his friends, she finds out that they are really in Tennessee.
