“The Chaser” is short story that has strong irony. This famous story is written by John Collier. The story is about a naive man named Alan who tries to get a love potion from an old man to fall in love with his prince charming Diana. But as the story is trying us, no one can use a love potion to make love last for their whole life, because the true nature of love is not to force it by a love potion, but getting a long and accumulate affection.
Collier uses three types of irony to show the naivety of Alan Austen. In the story, the old man who has much experience in life and Alan who is a young man, that is naive to love, and he is want to seek the life what he wants. The first difference between the old man and Alan is the way of speech. For example “Sit down Mr. Austin.” said the old man very politely. The old man speaks on a highly educated standard, he always being polite, and speaking very formal. Alan is different to that such as, “It is true that you have a certain mixture that extraordinary effect?” Alan asked. The reader can see clear is the simple word what Alan used have a strong contrast to what the old man said. Because the author want to tell the reader from here is the old man has much more experience than Alan and he can easily know what Alan thought so he can control Alan and get money from him. Also, readers can get that from here is Alan has no others mind except of fall in love with Diana, that is the only propose he has to. Secondly, Alan’s naivety and immaturity is obvious from the way he views and pursues the love. “She is already everything to me. Only she doesn’t care about it.” Alan knows that Diana will not fall in love with him without a love potion, so he goes to the old man to try to buy one to make what he wants come true. The old man disagrees with Alan’s romaine thoughts; he thinks that is too naive. Actually, Alan is not the first man who went to the old man’s house to try to ge...