describe the narrator's encounter with oliver lutkins mother at her farm. Was it a planned and fake drama? Give reason.
Answers
Answer:
The narrator was a junior assistant clerk in a big law firm. He was going through training period and was never given any real work of a lawyer. He was not sent to prepare legal briefings but to go and serve summons. He was sent to New Mullian to find out Oliver Lutkins. He found a man called Bill at the station who offered to help him find Lutkin. They both went around the small village asking the places Oliver hanged out. After all failed attempts they went to his mother to find him. Bill informed she was a dangerous lady, always ready to fight.
The narrator and Bill went to Oliver's farmyard and found an enormous and cheerful old woman. Bill asked his mother to inform about her son. The lady said she did not know about him. Bill then told that the narrator was a lawyer and came to search her property. Lutkin's mother invited them both in the kitchen and then took out iron rod from stove and threatened them to burn them by that. She chased them out and laughed on them.
After finding Lutkins almost everywhere, Bill consulted a friend who told him he could be with his mother at her farm. Bill took him to Lutkins’s mother’s farm. On the way to the farm, Bill portrayed a scary picture of Lutkins’s mother in front of the lawyer.
As they entered the farmyard, they found Lutkins’s enormous mother standing there. Bill himself went to her and began talking to her. He insisted that he and the lawyer would like to search the farmyard to find Lutkins.
Lutkins’s mother picked up an iron pan threatening them. As a result Bill and the lawyer ran in fright. As they did so, the mother began to laugh.
All this drama had been pre-planned. The lawyer understood the entire situation next day when he saw Bill standing with Lutkins’s mother and talking amiably to her.