Analysis of the short story Irregularities by Courtney Jones
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Assignment B Irregularities The short story Irregularities, written by Courtney Jones and published in 2003, deals with various aspects of human life and the consequences of hopeless love. The pivotal point in the short story is the female narrator and her short "relationship" with her employer, Dr. Soleander. Their relationship cannot be described as an affair because of its short existence and due to Dr. Soleander's lack of interest in the female narrator after they've spent a night together in his office. We meet the female narrator, whose name is never to be known, as she explains about a recent appearance of onion intolerance. The intolerance includes several others groceries and is due to the fact that the narrator is pregnant - by whom, we discover in line 11, "My boss, James Soleander, M.D., doesn't even know yet about the baby inside me, though I believe he ought to. He's...

