Situation Irony: Fila’s death
Fila’s death is ironic because it references the temptation that Eve succumbed to in the Garden of Eden.
Verbal Irony: Being a vampire
Magreb dispels all notions of typical vampire traits early on in the story – such as the need to sleep in the coffin, evade sunlight, and drink blood.
Situational irony: Clyde’s bloodlust
It is ironic that Clyde uses the lemon grove as a way of keeping his bloodlust at bay, but at the same time, he allows Fila, a human temptation, to keep working on the grove.
Situational irony: Fila
Fila is ironically a reference to the apple in the Garden of Eden – she is the one fruit in the grove that Clyde cannot resist.
