“She had beautiful eyes, but
they were of no use to her”- find irony in this line. “The Eyes Have It” by Ruskin Bond.

 

“She had beautiful eyes, but they were of no use to her”

From the beginning of the story “The Eyes Have It” the
blind narrator was in attempt to hide his blindness from his co-passenger girl.
To make his attempt successful, he tried a lot. He took the help of his
experience, walked down memory lane and even guessed the beauty of the girl
only to make the girl confirm that he was not blind. He was successful in his
attempt as the girl did not suspect anything and left the train. But there was a
twist as well as irony at the end of the story. From the third passenger came
to know that the girl’s eyes were useless to her as she was completely blind.
Ruskin Bond very craftfully ends the story with an irony. To whom the boy was
desperate to conceal his blindness was blind herself. The girl more skillfully
concealed her weakness than the boy, making the boy as well as the readers
fool.

 

• The Eyes Have It is a short story
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• Exchange between the fellow passenger and the narrator