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Imagery And Irony In Katharine Brush's Birthday Party

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In “Birthday Party,” Katharine Brush describes the event of a married couple celebrating the husband’s birthday in her short story. His wife plans a surprise for him, but instead he feels furious and embarrassed. Brush uses imagery and irony to emphasize certain moments of the story.
First, imagery is used to depict the appearance of the married couple. “The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it; the woman was fadingly pretty, in a big hat.” Additionally, this shows the woman’s beauty, while it shows the man satisfied with how his celebration is going. Moreover, there is imagery to show how the whole birthday surprise was organized. “It arrived, in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning

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