Taking matters into your own hands
John Beaver was “twenty-five years old.” From leaving Oxford “until the beginning of the slump” he had worked in an advertising agency. Since then “no one had been able to find anything for him to do.” So he got up “late” and “sat near his telephone most of the day hoping to be called up.” The irony was that except for getting up and sitting near the telephone he didn’t do anything to find a job. The funniest thing was that his mother managed to find hundreds of tasks to take care about.
The only reason
Brenda hated Hetton. She was a social butterfly, wanted attention, dreamt to live in the big city where she could visit parties, shops, cafes, and do other petty things. Tony’s unwillingness to go out was really unnerving. However, Brenda knew that she couldn’t do anything about it. So, when her husband refused one of the invitations they got, she stated that “it might be fun to eat someone else’s food for a bit.” The irony of Brenda’s words was that there were many people who really did go to parties only because of free food.
Think twice
Beaver’s decision to visit Hetton struck Tony like a lightning. His first thought was, “what on earth are we going to do with him?” The irony was that Beaver’s visit was only Tony’s fault. He had made a terrible mistake. The man hadn’t thought at all when he invited Beaver to come to his place. Frankly speaking, Tony didn’t expect him to come. The worst thing was that Tony didn’t even like Beaver! Just like the majority of other people, Tony despised Beaver and considered him dull and uninteresting.
