Edith Wharton does a good job of using irony to give “Roman Fever” an interesting twist. The very first instance of irony of this story is the title. Roman fever was a common illness in the old days in Rome. The way that people would catch this illness was by going out at night when it was cold and not being properly covered up. The reader does not realize the irony of the title until later on in the story when it gets explained to the reader. When Mrs. Ansley became pregnant with her daughter, Barb

There are also many other small ironies within all of these big ironies that tie the whole story together, one of them being that the two women were seated at a restaurant that was overlooking the city of Rome. And one of the things that they could see as they looked out into the city was the colosseum. The colosseum was where lover would go at night to meet and have a romantic night with each other. This was also where Mrs. Ansley and Delphin met that night long ago and had and affair, which was the most important event in these women’s lives. I believe that Edith Wharton uses all of these major ironies to tie her story together and to make it interesting for her reader. If it were not for the ironies that she uses, the story would be as fluent as it is or be as easy to understand. Although the reader does not understand most of these ironies until the end of the story, once they do catch them it makes the story come together and it even makes the story a bit humorous

Edith Wharton also uses irony through different people in the story “Roman Fever”. One of these people is Mrs. Ansley’s daughter, Barbara. Barbara is a very pretty and animated young girl, and she is just a little bit older that Mrs. Slade’s daughter, Jenny. Mrs. Slade is constantly raving about Babs, saying how pretty she is and that she was “more effective”(1360) than her once very pretty mother, and that she “had more [of an] edge” (1360) than her mother as well. Mrs. Slade also says that she wishes her daughter were a little wi

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