Use of Irony in R . K. Narayan’s 'The Guide'  R. K. Narayan’s
conception of humor is meticulously achieved in The Guide. We
get a glimpse of the complexity of life in this novel through
irony of motives, characters, situations, and ideas.  Narayan
behaves like Chaucer when the matter of religion arrives.
Narayan satirizes the corruption of the sadhus through irony.
Sainthood is reduces to a matter merely of external appearance
when Raju thinks to compose his feature for his professional
role and smoothes out his beard and hair, and sits down in the
seat with a book in his hand.  “He was hypnotised by his own
voice; he felt himself growing in stature as he saw the upturned
faces of the children shinning in the half light when he spoke.
No one was more impressed with the grandeur of the whole thing
than Raju himself”  Narayan criticizes sharply when Raju relates
some principal of living with a particular variety of delicious
food and he mentions it with an air of seriousness, so that his
listeners take it as a