Irony In Katharine Bush's Birthday Party

In “Birthday Party,”Katharine Bush’s purpose for writing depicts the use of irony and subtle diction.
Bush incorporates irony first by giving a sense of happiness. What she describes as an ‘occasion” being the special being in the restaurant. Furthermore it is found that the couple was actually celebrating a birthday. We then see where the wife even surprises the husband with band playing “Happy Birthday to you.” However, it is then revealed that the husband is actually embarrassed and doesn’t think much of the surprise. Moreover, this can be shown from the qoute” oh now don’t be like that!” Which hints further that the husband wasn’t very thrilled by the surprise. Finally we are left with the image of a crying wife and see, that just because