“I have always wondered what he was thinking as he sat with you, but I’m sure it was the same way I felt only a few hours before. And when he finally walked you to your car, you said he told you that I was a lucky man. He behaved as a gentleman would, and I understood then why your choice was so hard” (Sparks 169). Allie elopes with her previous love, Noah while she is engaged to a new man, Lon just to find out her feelings for Noah never went away. In The Notebook Nicholas Sparks illustrates Allie and Noah’s love story through the use of irony to demonstrate the obstacles in their relationship. One example of irony is “And Lon paled then, remembering, remembering what had been so long ago.Remembering what Allie’s mother said. It was something
