Friday, July 4, 2008

IRONY AND SYMBOLISM

C. IRONY AND SYMBOLISM The irony can be found in the last paragraph of the story, when the husband hates his wife and he wants to “play” her dead by playing the scrabble words ‘dead’ or ‘kill’. But, he hasn’t got the right letters to play one of these words. So he wants to tease her by playing some other words. Like ‘ZAPS’, ‘CHEATING’, and ‘QUAKE’. The readers seem to be led by the narrator to follow the narrator’s mind, which is to kill his wife. But unexpectedly, the story is ended by the death, which comes to the husband himself. Every word of the game is considered as a symbol. Scrabble symbolizes marriage and the tiles symbolize the action taken or done inside the marriage. All the words symbolize the action of the couple’s fight. . Begin : the beginning of the conflict · Jinxed : the starting point of the conflict · Warmer : the husband is provoked by his wife’s word · The letter U : represents the wife · Sweatier : the wife forces her husband to admit something, this also symbolizes the husband’s nervousness. · Humid : the husband’s denial to the wife’s accusation hesitantly. · Fan : the wife tries to solve the problem but it makes the problem even worse (probably she offers to divorce) · Zaps : the husband’s madness because of the wife’s solution. · Ready : the wife accepts the husband’s challenge. · The letter V : represents the husband’s woman affair. · Cheating : the husband plays a trick on his wife by having affair with another woman. · Ignore : the wife ignores her husband’s behavior. · Sleep : the best thing the husband can do for asking his wife’s apology. · Explodes : the husband finally reveals his flirtation or his affair with another woman. · Sign : the wife reminds her husband to keep his mouth. · The letter B : represents the weapon or gun, which is sounded “Bang” · Fly : the husband’s persuasion toward his wife, in order to release himself both from the conflict and the wife. · Caution : the wife’s threat toward her husband. · Quake : the final point of the husband’s madness and. · Death : the husband’s final execution, which is done by the wife . Points : refers to the power of each players.

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