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Character of Norman gortsby in dusk just in 600 words

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Answered by llxdevilgirlxll
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WILLIAM DELANEY eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR

"Dusk" is told by an omniscient third-person narrator through Norman Gortsby's point of view. He is sitting on a park bench watching people. This would seem to characterize him as something of a loner, an introvert, an intellectual, a man with some education who considers himself a philosopher. The young man who tells him his hard-luck story sounds like an English gentleman, and he takes Gortsby to belong to his own social class. Both of them have to work for their livings, but they would only consider doing work appropriate to gentlemen, such as trading in stocks and bonds.

One outstanding character trait of Gortsby is that he is skeptical. This is because he is an urbanite. This is hardly the first time he has sat on a park bench watching the passing parade. A man like him who is fairly well dressed and at leisure is sure to be approached regularly by men, and some women, who have different stories to tell but who all want money. He listens to the young man's story of losing his hotel, but his attitude suggests that he has no intention of helping him out with a loan. He even waits until the stranger has finished with the concluding gambit:

"I'm glad, anyhow, that you don't think the story outrageously improbable."

Then:

"Of course," said Gortsby slowly, "the weak point of your story is that you can't produce the soap."

The word "slowly" is significant. It suggests that Gortsby has been listening patiently and evaluating every detail. It also seems to suggest that Gortsby enjoys hearing the different stories people will invent in order to extract money from the gullible; and it further suggests that Gortsby never had any intention of giving the young man any money whether he was telling the truth or not....

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Answered by Phadkeradhika
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Answer: He is kinda introvert , over-confident , kind person who thinks he is done with life and was quite successful and experienced with it .

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