Atmosphere In The Milk Bar

Authors often use tone to show the reader the general atmosphere of something. Burgess uses tone constantly throughout his writings to show shifts in atmosphere. In the Milk Bar scene specifically the tone is more playful and clever than in later scenes where the tone is dark and twisted. When Alex and his gang are in the milk bar, Alex narrates, “There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry”( Burgess 1.1.2). In this scene Alex is describing the beginning of a night on the town with his “droogs”. The way the author writes Alex’s speech has a joking and canny