The irony of the snake spirit
This novel focuses on the relationship between a woman and her snake spirit. There is an implicit irony since humans are monkeys, and snakes are snakes, so their relationship is supernatural (humans don't typically like snakes). It's also ironic simply because talking magical snakes are unlikely.
The ironic politician
The job of a politician is to with the rapport and affection of the populace, but this husband fails in gaining his own wife's approval and love. This failure represents the marriage looking good on the surface, when really, the reader knows that the wife is experiencing a wonderful adventure without him (dramatic irony).
Sexual bliss and shame
The woman must confront her shame in her progress toward pleasure and enlightenment. This means that in order to access her full potential, she must transcend the moralism she was taught by her community.
The husband closing the gap
Instead of realizing his wife's blossoming sexuality, the husband merely patches the hole in the wall where the snake enters. This severs his wife from her primal sexuality, meaning that the husband has voluntarily sacrificed his own chances at sexual bliss with her. In other words, he thinks he is doing a simple favor for his wife, but really, he is severing their relationship by trying to reinforce the shame that keeps her alone. (Dramatic irony and situational irony).
The irony of gender
This novel's main character transcends her gender roles by discovering her full potential. In her astral projections and religious insights, her female nature doesn't hold her back at all. This is ironic because in every other domain of her life, the wife has been told that she is less than a man. There is a reason this wife stays home all day; in her world, she is even not allowed to work.
