Explain the irony in the following sentence from paragraph 160: “The colonel went off, growling savagely to himself, ‘How can the fools let themselves be excited by such idiotic
stories?’

What a literary critic determine a story's complex theme? oa. the public's reaction to the storyob. the number of characters in a storyoc. the order of events within the storyod. the specific details within the storysurmit

Which of these statements is evaluative in nature a) the short passage creates a brilliant and sketch of gabriel b) resulting from the fact that gabriel is observant, he is also reflective c) the way gabriel looks at his wife shows that he is a detached onlooker d) that gabriel is observant is evident from the minute details he notices

Which best describes the tone in these lines "the fish"