The Drunkard ~ A Father, a Son, and a Tendency to Drink

This story really only has one main string of irony in it. The important irony is that it takes the boy's father his son's drunkenness to quit drinking. He was not strong enough to give up drinking for his family's good or for the money he lost because of drinking. He truly gives it up because of the embarrassment his son causes him. Which in itself is ironic. For all of the times he had been drunk, as the was implied to know, one would think that he would quit from the embarrassment of  that. However, somehow, the embarrassment only set in when he was sober enough to see and hear the opinions of the people. In the end, the irony of this story circles around the parallels between the boy and his father's situations.