In eyes have it, the goaning sound of the carriage that was heard by the narrator after departure of the girl symbolizes the narrator's
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: The quoted line is told by a new fellow passenger in the compartment to the narrator.
Ruskin Bond's short story "The Eyes Have It" is full of irony dealt with the eyesight of two major characters in the story. The blind narrator thought the girl who was his fellow passenger with normal eyesight. But actually she was blind too. The discovery of her blindness comes as an ironical twist at the end of the story. When the girl entered the compartment, the narrator considered her to be with normal eyesight. So he wanted to conceal his blindness and involved in an ironical game of hide and seek. He even praised the girl's face and described the beauty of Mussoorie recalling from his memories. But the blind narrator came to know that the girl too was blind only after her departure. It was really irony to hear that the girl had beautiful eyes but of no use. The revelation of the real situation at the end makes the story ironical. The narrator was outwitted in the game of deception. Gradually, the readers could anticipate the ironical twist at the end.