Dramatic Irony In 'Charles' To Shirley Jackson's Charles

Compare to Shirley Jackson’s other novels, Charles is one short story that are less horror. The story is humorous, but ends with dramatic irony as Jackson’s style. Readers may realize that Laurie’s description of the misbehaving Charles is actually himself, because the author has given some hints in the story. For example, Laurie does not show any respect to his father, instead he calls his father an “old dust mop”. His mother, however, chooses to ignorant the misbehavior of her son and believes firmly of an imagination figure that created by him. Here one can find a sense of vanity of the narrator, she is subconsciously denying the potential bad aspects of her son, instead she thinks that it is others who may causes negative effective to him.