“She had beautiful eyes but they were no use to her” –whose eyes are referred to here? Why were the eyes useless to her? Bring out the Irony in the  statement above?

 ANS: The blind girl’s eyes are referred to here in the story ‘The eyes have it’.

The Eyes were useless to her because though eyes were so beautiful but she was completely blind.

Irony is a figure of speech. In which one think is said but the opposite is meant. Here there is also an Irony because the narrator of the story was blind in “The Eyes Have It” by Ruskin Bond. He had a very romantic train  journey with the girl. The narrator wanted to be so close with the girl and also to love her. He began to see the world through the eyes of the girl but from the new passenger he came to know that the girl was also blind. So a situational irony lies here.