He ruined my night and he didn't save me any porter!

The irony in this story was immense. The story begins with the description of a character that seems to annoy most people yet his funeral has many attendants. I think this is most likely due to the free liquor after the funeral. This is certainly the case for "Father". However Father doesn't even get to drink. The young boy wants to do anything possible to keep his father from drinking because he has seen the consequences. It is ironic that he succeeds in this mission only by drinking the alcohol himself. The father then has to deal with the consequences. I wasn't quite sure how old the boy was but he seemed young to me because he calls his father Dadda and he wasn't allowed to be left alone. Yet when this boy is drunk he has the diction of a much older man. This was also ironic in a way because now that the father was actually taking care of his son, his son was sounding like an adult man. The last line of the story is the mother praising the boy for being a guardian angel. This too is ironic. How is it that God would send a boy to go get drunk and in the end injured and embarrasses. But I guess in a way the boy did keep his father from drinking and his family from suffering the consequences.