Social Irony in Connell’s Short Story “the Cage Man”

Muhammad Rizky 180410120082 17/01/13 Social Irony in Connell’s Short Story â€Å"The Cage Man† Irony can be defined as a double significance which arises from the contrast in values associated with two different point of view (Leech and Short, Style in fiction; 223). The most usual kind is that which involves a contrast between a point of view stated or implied in some part of the fiction, and the assumed point of view of the author, and hence of the reader. In the Richard Connell’s short story entitled â€Å"The Cage Man† it is Horace Nimms, the main character of the story, who is involved in contrast social value; between Horace Nimms point of view and my point of view. What makes this short story unique is that when in another Connell’s short†¦show more content†¦Furthermore, the reason of being of S. Cowan, the Efficiency Expert Extraordinary, actually is to make Horace out of the cage. Cowan took the part in the story as a â€Å"stimulus† for Horace and therefore for the story itself. Through his â€Å"unusual† anatomical and ps ychological observation Cowan decides to place Horace from his â€Å"mathematical cage† to â€Å"mechanical cage†, replacing his position with the previous elevator man of where he worked at the moment. He makes Horace struggle to get back his â€Å"altar of addition and subtraction†, in which later in the story acted as the main reason on how Horace finally got the ear of Oren Hammer, a man who washes the faces of forty million people every morning. The loose of his cage motivates Horace to take what the Efficiency Expert Extraordinary had taken from him which used to be his dwelling for the last twenty-one year. In search of the way to â€Å"get his home back† Horace crucially confronts a chance while he is escorting his car. His eagerness and desire on getting his exalted temple back braces him to declare his existence, ignoring the cutaway coat and the dazzling top hat and the worth fifty-thousand-a-year jutting jaw which used to be