Well this story is just full of irony. I would say that the most ironic part of the story is the scene where the father is walking his son home. So many times before, the father has been the one walking home drunk, but this time the roles are reversed. The son drinks all of his fathers beer, and gets terribly drunk. His father must walk his drunk son home. It is also ironic that the father, though he is not drunk at all, is still scolded by the old ladies on the street. He would have gotten the same treatment if he was drunk. The people around him find any excuse to get mad at him.
The final ironic point is that the mother is proud of the son. She knows that her son needed to drink the beer to keep his father from doing so. he saved the family money by getting drunk himself. It is ironic that he needed to get drunk himself to prevent his father from getting drunk.
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