Question

List all those facts that you find unbelievable in the story 'The Lost Jewels'?

Answer 1

With irony as the contrast between what is stated and what is meant (verbal irony), or between what is expected and what actually happens (situational irony), there are both instances of irony in "The Lost Jewels."

A story told in the Benghali tradition of philosophy with a certain mysticism and hidden foreshadowing, the unknown narrator, a merchant, relates his encounter with a schoolmaster who moors his boat (ironically, as it turns out) beside "an old bathing ghat of the river... in ruins."

Pointing to a ramshackle house, the schoolmaster begins his tale of the misfortune attached to it. He describes the merchant Bhusan who married a beautiful, but selfish woman named Mani. In his weakness, Bhusan spoils her: