Question

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 love 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?

Answer 1

Mr. Shiftlet makes ironic comments as he talks about morale after he left his wife at a roadside restaurant. 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.