in lines 201-202,the author writes, "anyway,he had felt an immense relief in coming out of the black pit while the people were lifting him off the ground."what does the black pit represent?how is the main character's relief ultimately ironic,or different from what was expected
The black pit represents the road on which the protagonist have had an accident.
His relief was ironic as he realized that the physical pain that he's experiencing wasn't severe or long lasting as he had expected it to be.
Explanation:
"The Night Face Up" by Julio Cortazar narrates the story of an unnamed protagonist who got in an accident, and being confined in a hospital, drifting in and out of sleep and consciousness. The "black pit" mentioned in the lines 201-202 is that of the road where he had the accident. And his relief is quite ironic as he had expected to have a more severe and long lasting physical pain but that wasn't so.
