Irony in The Chaser

Irony is when something is said or done but was meant to mean something else, or when someone says something like, you should never assume the gun isn’t loaded and then pulls the trigger and it is loaded would be irony because the person wasn’t careful about his gun to begin with. In the short story “The Chaser” there is a lot of examples of irony. For example a young man named Alan went to get a love potion because the girl he loved showed no feelings to him. So Alan goes and gets his love potion but the irony is that the potion is so strong that eventually he will need a potion to get rid of his lover. Another irony in this story is that Alan is looking for love but doesn’t realize that he will need a poison. The biggest irony is that Alan spent only a dollar for the love potion but in the end will need to spend five thousand dollars on the poison to get rid of his lover.