In the story, “Checkouts,” by Cynthia Rylant, a girl that is adjusting to her new life, after having moved to Cincinnati, falls in love with a bagboy at a local supermarket. They wait a long time to get to know each other better, each one equally obsessing over the other, but, nothing happens between them. Eventually, they both “give up their fancy” for the other person. Consequently, they find other people and give up on each other. The theme of this short story is that people can act in erratic ways, due to their feelings towards one another.
The author uses irony, in the short story “Checkouts,” to emphasize the theme. The protagonist obsesses over the bag boy for a very extensive period of time, four weeks, during which, “Each time she
The author uses irony, in the short story “Checkouts,” to emphasize the theme. The protagonist obsesses over the bag boy for a very extensive period of time, four weeks, during which, “Each time she