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The narrator's reasoning about not trying to meet the girl at the end by Ruskin bond (fy,3rd ch...)​

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Explain how Ruskin Bond uses irony in the story ''The Eyes Are Not Here."

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“The Eyes Are Not Here” [also known as “The Girl on the Train” and “The Eyes Have It”] is a short story by Ruskin Bond, an Indian writer. The story exudes irony. The story uses first person point of view. Not far into the story, the reader discovers that the narrator is blind but apparently has not always been. Riding on a train and sitting in a compartment provides the setting of the story.

This story is an excellent example of situational irony which employs a plot device in which events turn out contrary to expectation yet are contrarily appropriate. Further use of irony involves verbal irony when a character says one thing but means another.