A3.
Answer the following questions.
1. How did the lady manage to get an invitation for a luncheon from the writer?
2. It is evident that the writer was disappointed by the appearance of the lady. How
do we learn this?
3. The writer says 'Panic seized me.'When and why did this happen?
4. 'Oh, no, I'm not hungry, you see, I don't eat luncheon. I have a cup of coffee in
the morning and then dinner, but I never eat more than one thing for luncheon.
I was speaking for you.'Who said this? What is ironical in this statement?
5. 'Today she weighs twenty-one stone.'Why is the writer happy that the lady is
overweight:
Answers
Is this the story 'The Luncheon'?
1.The lady in question presented herself as a connoisseur of good literature and as an admirer of young Somerset Maugham. She sent him a note telling him she had just read his new novel and would like to have a little chat with him if he would "give her a little luncheon at Foyot's," an expensive Parisian restaurant.
2.The woman the narrator takes to luncheon at one of the most expensive restaurants in Paris is exploiting him mercilessly by pretending an interest in his writing which she probably doesn't really feel.
3.In foyot's, panick seized the author because he wondered whether he had enough to pay the bill.
4.The lady said this and this was ironical because even though the lady said she doesn't eat much she did eat much than he imagined.
5. She is obese -she deserves it because of the way she treated him that day at the luncheon, knowing full well that he couldn't afford an expensive restaurant, but still went ahead manipulating him.
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