What is the irony in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Answer 1

In every book, the conflict is different. Basically, it's just Arthur Dent and his attempts to get used to the life outside of his recently blowed up home planet.

Answer 2

One example of irony in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the idea that the most powerful supercomputer in the universe was created to calculate the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, only to come up with the answer "42," which is nonsensical. This subverts the expectation that the answer to life's ultimate question should be profound or meaningful, highlighting the absurdity of seeking definitive answers to existential questions.

Answer 3

There was a planet in which a third of its population were thinkers, a third of its population were do-ers, and a third of its population were telephone sanitizers. The thinkers and do-ers wanted to be rid of the telephone sanitizers, so they told the telephone sanitizers that the planet was to be eaten by a giant mutant star-goat, and sent them off in a vast space ark. Shortly after this, all the thinkers and do-ers were wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

Answer 4

Arthur Dent's planet was destroyed, and he and Ford Prefect are trying to survive and possibly find another place to live. They also both go along with Zaphod Beeblebrox and Trillian when they were saved onto their stolen Heart of Gold "improbability ship".

(Please improve! This is very vague and is just the best summary I can do.)

Answer 5

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy shows how much fate plays in our life. Humans are not all that important in the galaxy because we are mostly harmless. Earth is destroyed to build an intergalactic bypass just before a human would discover the important meaning of life, the universe and everything. So the 4D mice have to pay to have a new Earth designed to get that knowledge.