It’s nothing so sweet,” Mr. Shiftlet continued, “as a boy’s mother. She taught him his first prayers at her knee, she give him l
ove when no other would, she told him what was right and what wasn’t, and she seen that he done the right thing. Son,” he said, “I never rued a day in my life like the one I rued when I left that old mother of mine.” What is ironic about Mr. Shiftlet’s comments?
Mr. Shiftlet makes ironic comments as <u>he talks about morale after he left his wife at a roadside restaurant. </u>One day he was more depressed than ever while driving alone, there were times when he preferred not to be alone and in the heavens a storm was slowly prepared.
