In the short-story ‘Getting Married’ the author, A.A. Milne, contrasts the two characters of Ronald & amp; Celia on their respective attitudes towards marriage. This contrast helps in a better understanding of their characters and singes the plot of the story with rich comedy. For the contrast to become more prominent, the author begins with some similarities between the two characters. Both Ronald & Celia are in love with each other, both of them want to get married & both of them face the ordeal of fixing the marriage day, furnishing the house & planning the honeymoon. So far for their similarity.
These fundamental points of similarities throw into high relief the contrast between the two characters. Ronald is a man who likes to be guided. He would love to sit back and let others work for him. When it comes to fixing the marriage day, he thought that Celia, his best man & his solicitor would arrange it for him. His intention in marrying Celia is that she would reply the correspondences for him & when it boils down to settling a honeymoon spot for them, he wanted that his father-in-law should write a letter in order to engage a resort for them. All these incidents under cut the narrator’s proud assertion, “Ronald is a man of powerful fiber” & contributes much to the humor in the story.
The narrator’s fiancée, Celia, is of a different make. She is lady who not only works herself, but also makes Ronald work. It is on her words that Ronald fixes the church & the date of marriage. It is she who makes him sit on the writing desk to write a letter for engaging a resort for the honeymoon, though the letter eventually is written by her. In fact, it is Celia who guides Ronald. She takes...