Answer the questions , from the chapter #story 'Dusk'
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It is a story by Hector Hugh Munro (who wrote under the pen name 'Saki'. In this story, Norman Gortsby sat on a bench and an elderly gentleman sits there. Gortsby judges the man as a person defated in his life. Some time after the man goes and anther man comes,who was younger and better dressed than the previous one. He makes up a story which first Gortsby doesnt believe but after he thinks he was telling truth. But after then realises has he was a liar.
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Explanation:
1.) Norman Gortsby didn’t have a positive opinion of the general public or himself. His mood matched the dusk or the settling darkness. He saw honest, hardworking people walking past him as ‘the defeated’. He made conclusions about the old gentleman sitting next to him without knowing anything about him. He disbelieved the young stranger’s story but took pleasure to prove him wrong.
On finding the soap, he is elated that the young man was telling the truth but feels guilty that he didn’t help him. He hastens to hand over the soap and money to the young man. He chides himself for judging the young man too quickly but realises that he has been fooled when the old gentleman comes back looking for the soap.
2.) The young man was agitated as he sat on the bench to gain Gortsby’s attention. He frankly stated that he had done the silliest thing in his life. His reference to the mix up in hotel bookings is often a genuine problem faced by travellers. He’s stepping out to buy an essential item such as a bar of soap lent further credence to the story. Thus, by blaming himself and behaving frankly, he presented himself as a genuine person.
3.) The weakest point in the story of the man was that he could not produce the soap bought by him, to prove to Mr. Gortsby that his story was genuine.
Gortsby thought that the young man was careless because the man had lost the way to his hotel, didn’t remember the street name or the name of the hotel, and kept the cake of soap in a place unfamiliar to him.
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