Next Section Imagery Previous Section Metaphors and Similes Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen. Her food is terrible and all the joy has gone out of the ritual of eating for the family. However, the irony in this is that Grandma does NOT become a better cook.

She gives Grandma glasses so she can see, buys her a cookbook, and reorganizes her disastrously chaotic kitchen. Grandma's Cooking (Situational Irony)Īunt Rose comes to visit and sets Grandma's kitchen to right. She swears she can hear him and sense him, but the irony is that the Lonely One is in her house the whole time. Lavinia and the Lonely One (Situational Irony)īradbury presents terrifying situational irony when Lavinia believes she is being followed by the Lonely One in the ravine and exerts all of her effort to run away from him. Aunt Rose A well-meaning but ultimately dangerous visitor of Grandmother Spaulding's. Ned Jonas The town junk man and eventual savior of Douglas. Black The drunken proprietor of the arcade. Lonely One The serial killer terrorizing the women of Green Town. Of course, the glaring irony here is that both will grow old, and indeed, are growing older every second of the summer. A neighbor of Miss Fern and Miss Roberta who faces the Lonely One. There's nothing we can do to help them' (79). That's brilliant! Old people never were children!' and Tom replies, 'And it's kind of sad. The children of the town are convinced old people were never young. Her irony reveals how against the machine she is because she knows it is not real happiness. Waking up early in the morning, Douglas Spaulding employs magic to. Since many chapters have isolated significance, some chapters have been summarized to give a broader idea of what the novel is about.

She says, 'His wife is nervous, she's gained ten pounds, she'll need new clothes, look! Sure - the machine is ready!' (55). Dandelion Wine is a nostalgic autobiographical fantasy in which the author forms a collage of isolated parts and melds them together. Lena is scathingly ironic when she responds to Leo's cry that the Happiness Machine is finally finished.

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