Situational Irony In 'If You Really Don T Cry'

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The situational irony in this story is when Phoenix finally arrives at the drug store to get medicine for her grandson, She can no longer remember why she traveled there. The sentences in the story explain that it because she is too tired but I think that might because she experienced too much during the traveling and forget what she really for. Like in throughout the day, some people keep trying to make money for their family but finally they just do not know why and only care about they money (contrary to the heart).

Phoenix is an old and uneducated woman who lives in mountains, basically her is isolated from the modern society. She says to the doctor in the clinic: "I have never been to school, the end of the war I am too old, I am

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