Does F Scott Fitzgerald Use Dramatic Irony In The Camel's Back

Irony is a literary technique used by many authors throughout the American Literature, as it allows the author to develop a meaning in his story without blatantly stating them. In Order to attract the reader and make him thinking about the meanings behind the words and conceive the conclusions. Also many authors utilize the Irony to create humor such as F.Scott Fitzgerald who used a great deal of dramatic irony in his short story ‘The Camel’s back’ to show how one’s actions frequently overthrow their attempts to find love.

First of all, in the Camel’s back Fitzgerald try to describe a contradictory relationship between a characters’s limited understanding of his situation in some particular moment of the development action, so as to depict two sets of character’s journeys to look for love. Furthermore, in each story the female character has created an obstacle in her search for love. And by using irony, Fitzgerald depicts the ways in which each woman has inhibited her

The readers know that Perry is wearing a camel suit, and they know that it is eminent that Betty will discover. Actually, Fitzgerald keeps the reader try to guess until the very end when Betty learned that she has been married to Perry. Fitzgerald then summed up the story with a type of situation irony. Betty begins to cry hard and says she will cancel the marriage and that he will abandon her with the man that was in the back of the camel suit since she does not want to marry him. After saying her good bye, and while leaving for the west it sounds that Betty and Perry’s opportunities for love have certainly been shot when Betty runs to Perry and cries “Oh, Perry, don’t leave me! Perry, Perry, take me with you!” (220). Thus, this is also ironic because Betty has left Perry many times, but when she is the one being left she unexpectedly realizes what she really