Irony of the short story The Wall

In the short story The Wall the author uses irony to tell his story. The types of irony used vary from dramatic, situational. The most obvious one is situational. It is displayed in the story when the former mason who is building the wall with such care because, "What pleasure would there be in escaping from a prison that was poorly built?" This is situational irony because he is implying that he will escape through the walls of the prison when he really just wants everyone to think that. This gives him the opportunity to simply walk through the front gates. An example of dramatic irony in the story is in the last paragraph, when the prison director hires a professional burglar to to fix his window sash. This is dramatic irony because we know something is bound to happen based on the tale above.