Irony

Geoffrey Braithwaite says that he doesn't like critics, but while he is explaining the reason as to why he doesn't like them he is criticizing himself. Now, his reasons for not liking critics is not the same as everyone else, but it is rather ironic that he becomes hypocritical and criticizes them for doing their job. The fact that Dr. Enid Starkie realized that Flaubert did not give too much attention about what color eyes Emma Bovary had made Geoffrey Braithwaite wonder if there was a perfect reader being as though he did not once realize, out of all the times he read Madame Bovary, that she had been given many different eye colors. Even though he does not enjoy critics, he does not hate on them entirely. He does point out that the reason most people do not like them is most likely false. For instance, when he says that people just say that they are just "failed creators" but in all actuality most of them are very successful. He even says that what they say isn't because they are jealous of that writer, but that what they review and write is probably true. He just defends them, somewhat, before he tears into there jobs and practically their way of life. It does, however, make him laugh a little because they are cursed with the fact they cannot forget and whatever they read becomes like family, and that normal individuals can read a book, forget, and then move on with their lives. Pretty ironic I thought...