1. What is the bias in the story?of A PREJUDICED MIND
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The bias is in the mind of the narrator of the story. To have a bias or nourish a prejudice means to have a negative notion about someone without a solid reason. It involves judging others and discriminating against them on the basis of skin colour, gender,ethnicity, religion or financial status. The narrator is a lady who comes from an affluent background and is prejudiced against the poor. She feels that the poor have sweaty, dirty bodies and assumes that is exactly how their minds are too. She believes that such people have mean schemes going on in their minds. She even tells her daughter Rimi to stay away from the peanut hawker because such people put little children in gunny sacks and take them away. The child Rimi however, is not biased. Towards the end of the story, the poor hawker is successfully able to 'crack the wall of prejudice' around the narrator.