Use Of Irony In Thief By Robley Wilson

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In the short story “Thief,” Robley Wilson uses irony to show that when failing to treat another person with respect, can lead one to seek revenge, in order to teach a lesson.

In the beginning, the man sits in the airport bar waiting at the airline counter when he notices a young woman. Admiring the beautiful woman, “he wants to somehow to attract the brunette's attention, to invite her to have a drink with him before her own flight leaves for wherever she is traveling, but even though he believes for a moment she is looking his way he cannot catch her eye from out of the shadows of the bar” (168). Ironically the man's disrespect for the women is trying to objectify her while looking at her trying to flirt because he is interested in

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