What Is Irony When Mr Wehling By Kurt Vonnegut

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Irony is when you expect one thing, but receive another. In this story irony is the main topic. With everything being perfect in a utopia no war, disease, or ageing, but still there’s something wrong. Or how the mural depicting the beautiful garden has weeds that never go away. In these examples Kurt Vonnegut shows how nothing can be perfect even in a utopian society.

Vonnegut was using irony as a basis to teach this lesson to his readers. He uses a “utopia” which means a perfect society. Even in the far future only some problems were solved, but this isn’t the only literary element to develop this lesson. Or when Mr. Wehling is about to have triplets. This makes the audience think it’s going to be a beautiful moment, but it’s the worst

day of his life.
He used characterization to show how nothing can be perfect just by how you perceive it. Like in the story Dr. Hitz is the creator of the replacement policy he believes this society is perfect, but the painter sees the new problem they made by trying to solve another problem. He says in the story, “When I decide it’s time to go, it won’t be a Sheepdip” this quote emphasizes the main topic of nothing can be perfect. Or Mr. Wehling having triplets, but needs to kill his grandfather to even have one. The world from his life is very flawed, but most of the nurses don’t think anything of it.
Vonnegut uses irony and symbolism to show how nothing can be perfect, but there can be a deeper meaning to it. Maybe Vonnegut wasn’t talking about everything he could just be talking about society. Fixing one problem can just create another. For instance curing a disease can make the world too over populated. So that could be the real idea Vonnegut was trying to show in his story.