Anne Sexton’s “The Addict” focuses on a mentally-ill woman with a drug addiction. The speaker faces an internal battle as she succumbs to her “pink,... orange,... green, and… white goodnights” (20-21). Perhaps, there is a likelihood that the speaker suffers from depression because she abuses these “...sweet pharmaceutical bottles” (4) in order for her to escape reality. Irony is used to describe how the speaker’s drugs, that are supposed to be rehabilitating her, are slowly killing her instead. She invites premature death into her life stating “that [she] promise[s] to die” (11). Also, the drug intake gradually begins to build-up causing her to lose humanity and become more of a “...chemical mixture” (22-23). Her gradual demise exhibits that