The Power of Joy in a Novel

Joy is emphasized and made powerful when contrasted with another character's pain. Joyful and painful emotions are combined in the same passage of dialogue giving a reader a wild ride. Cece couldn't speak it was a joke now Bertie would say it's a joke see you didn't believe me did you. Oh boy I didn't mean to blur it out like that she said instead to say I got laid which is really an awful way to put it because it wasn't like that we made love. The funny thing is that I don't feel guilty and I don’t feel dirty and I'm not the least bit in love with himYou know the old myth about the man you give