Bullet in the Brain

Discuss an instance of irony within Anders's final moments.

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The narrator states that Anders has "plenty of leisure to contemplate the scene that, in a phrase he would have abhorred, 'passed before his eyes'" (35). Here, Wolff uses irony to underscore the fact that stereotypical or trite 'plot developments' do sometimes really play out in real life. This fact is not one understood by Anders.