Not exciting enough
It was pretty understandable why Francis wanted to talk about the accident with a plane. He almost died there! However, others didn’t find his story as interesting and exciting as Francis believed it to be. When the man tried to tell his story Trace, the latter listened to it politely, “but how could he get excited?” The irony was in the fact that “Francis had no powers that would let him recreate a brush with death.” The lesson we can learn from this story is that one would better to be sure that his or her story is exciting enough if he or she wants others to listen. It doesn’t really matter what the story is about, the main thing is to catch listeners’ attention.
A cool dad
Like any other parent, Francis doesn’t like when his own children disobey him. He distinctly remembers how he, Francis, forbade his daughter, Helen, to read True Romance. However, Helen says that everyone reads it, even “Bessie Black’s father reads True Romance”. The irony of this situation is that Francis wants to tell “his oldest daughter about plane air crash”, but even that foolish magazine seems to be more important than it.
Luxury of dislikes
When Francis says that he has a right to express his “likes and dislikes”, for he is sick and tired of pretending that he is at least remotely interested in lives of his neighbors, he doesn’t understand why his wife is angry and states that he had almost destroyed all her hard work for the social position they have. The irony is that she is absolutely right, for a price of expressing one’s true opinion is a life of “a bear in a cave”. If all of them start expressing their dislikes, there won’t be any social life at all.
