"'It was God did it you were there. You were his guardian angel.'"
O'Connor's story is hilarious! And at the same time, the situation irony brings out a good point. It is evident that the boy knew that his father's drinking was a bad thing, as it kept him home with a hangover instead of at work earning money for the family. His mother's statement to him, put above, was perfectly true. Although getting drunk resulted in him being sick, getting cut over the head, and shaming his father publicly in front of the town, it also made his father reconsider drinking ever again. It is also ironic how the tables were turned. At the beginning of their time in the bar, the boy expected that he would be the one carrying his father home through the streets, stumbling drunk and embarrassing their family. Yet when it was the other way around, the father was mortified and humiliated to be in what would normally be his son's shoes. But perhaps the final irony comes from the fact that these drunkards are Irish! Haha!
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