ANSWER THE FOLLOWING 2. When did the rubber plant have the most fun? What did it do? 3. Why was the rubber plant's life the dullest at Miss Carruthers' friend's house?
4. What did the rubber plant think when it was bought by Bess?
5. Why did Bess ask the stout, dark man to leave?
6. How was the rubber plant's life different in the girl's house?
7. What did Bess mean by 'the bubble burst only today? 8. Why did the rubber plant think that they were stretching matters?
Answers
Answer:
We rubber plants form the connecting link between the vegetable kingdom and the decorations .
Explanation:
The Rubber Plant's Story
by O. Henry
We rubber plants form the connecting link between the vegetable kingdom and the decorations of a Waldorf-Astoria scene in a Third Avenue theatre. I haven't looked up our family tree, but I believe we were raised by grafting a gum overshoe on to a 30-cent table d'hote stalk of asparagus. You take a white bulldog with a Bourke Cockran air of independence about him and a rubber plant and there you have the fauna and flora of a flat. What the shamrock is to Ireland the rubber plant is to the dweller in flats and furnished rooms. We get moved from one place to another so quickly that the only way we can get our picture taken is with a kinetoscope. We are the vagrant vine and the flitting fig tree. You know the proverb: "Where the rubber plant sits in the window the moving van draws up to the door."
We are the city equivalent to the woodbine and the honeysuckle. No other vegetable except the Pittsburg stogie can withstand as much handling as we can. When the family to which we belong moves into a flat they set us in the front window and we become lares and penates, fly-paper and the peripatetic emblem of "Home Sweet Home." We aren't as green as we look. I guess we are about what you would call the soubrettes of the conservatory. You try sitting in the front window of a $40 flat in Manhattan and looking out into the street all day, and back into the flat at night, and see whether you get wise or not--hey? Talk about the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden--say! suppose there had been a rubber plant there when Eve--but I was going to tell you a story.
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