Answer: It's ironic because it's irony, and there's an iron in the image.
Innocent or unsuspecting.
Answer:
frankness
Explanation:
Deception is the act of tricking a person into doing something contrary to what they originally intended to do.
Frankness is being truthful and open to a person without without attempting to mislead the person.
Therefore, the opposite in meaning to the word "deception" is frankness.
The context (1899, New Orleans and Louisiana) is shown in some details. The use of some particular words like eager, composture, impaired is a sign of it. Also the fact that the money had to be transported phisically. It's also clear in the way Kate Chopin describes the like of women for the money. This is somewhat a macho point of view that has to do with the time and political context she lived in.
