The Drunkard

Question 6
The principle irony in this story is that the little boy gets drunk. He was supposed to stop his dad from drinking and he drinks one his father's pints when they are at the pub. He gets drunk and the father is forced to take his drunk son home. The situation used to be the other way around. The son comes home and the mother calls him a 'guardian angel.' When the father would drink, the next day he would not go to work because of his hangover. The boy drank so the father did not, or so the mother thought. The boy just wanted to know what alcohol tasted like and ended up getting drunk.