Innocent Perspective (Dramatic Irony)
At the beginning of the story, Myop is enjoying a beautiful sunny day. The girl taps out “the beat of a song on the fence around the pigpen.” She felt “light and good in the warm sun.” Myop was “ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta of accompaniment.” The irony of this scene is that this day is not as idyllic as Myop believes.
She sees only beauty of this particular day and doesn’t even notice “the rusty boards of her family’s sharecropper cabin.”
