Gillray's Flower-pot
Long response:
What is ironic or humorous about the following sentence?
"Gilray kept pestering me with letters about his chrysanthemum. He seemed to have no faith in me--a detestable thing in a man who calls himself your friend."
Answers
Calls himself your friend is a humorous one. It is an iconic or humorous response that has been taken with pestering with letters written about the chrysanthemum.
This involves right reason and should be controlled to have no faith in me.
It increase detestable thing in a man and he calls himself your friend.
Answer:
This statement is ironic. By ironic we mean 'happening in a way contrary to what is expected and typically causing wry amusement because of this.'
The ironic element here is that Gilray kept pestering with letters asking about his Chrysanthemum, to his friend, even when he had promised him that he will water his flower pot. Gilray's friend believed that between friends a promise is surely sufficient, but unfortunately in Gilray's context, it is not so.
Gilray, in his recent postcards, started sounding a bit disrespectful to his friend. In one of his letters, he asked about his flower pot and told his friend in an ordering tone to reply at once. This was just Gilray's overbearing way, but his friend still answered him politely.
So at last, after summarising it, we may conclude that the above-mentioned statement is ironic because of two facts. Firstly, it was not at all expected by Gilray's friend that Gilray would post so many letters asking about his flower pot even when his friend had already promised him that he will water his flower pot when he would not be present. Secondly, Gilray's recent letters to his friend became disrespectful to his friend but his friend still replied to him politely.
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