This quote provides the unltimate irony of the story. The ten-year-old boy is drunk and originally is scolded. However, once the father leaves the mother comes and tells the boy that she is grateful for what he did. He unknowingly prevented his father from becoming very drunk and humiliating himself, the family, and missing work. I found it ironic and somewhat sickening that the father was more upset that he didn't get to drink, than he was that his son was drunk, sick, and wounded. Even before the incident, the father told the boy to go play in the street right outside of a bar. Wait, let me back up even more! The father wants to go get drunk after a funeral with a friend who did not even know the man who had died, and then he takes his son with him to the bar and hardly watches him. Clearly, this father is not aware of his responsibilities as a parent. The boy was expecting to have to take care of his drunk dad, but he ends up being the one taken care of. I feel like the boy's drunken rant is probably very similar to the way his father acts when drunk.
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