Answer:
Carnegie also created a vertical combination, an idea first implemented by Gustavus Swift. He bought railroad companies and iron mines. If he owned the rails and the mines, he could reduce his costs and produce cheaper steel. ... All these tactics made the Carnegie Steel Company a multi-million dollar corporation.
Explanation:
Even without the choices to the question, the irony found in that excerpt is evident. In the story "Mericans", a young girl is narrating the events about how she is trapped between her old heritage and the new world (Mexico and America, respectively).
The irony would be that the narrator is not from there either. We know this since the girl and her brother is not allowed to enter the church too.
Because they almost always contain characters and settings that are in no way realistic
