Question

give a character sketch of the peddler

Answer 1

The rattrap seller was a poor vagabond, wearing shabby ragged clothes. He sold rattraps to earn a very meager livelihood. At times he resorted to petty thievery. He considered the entire world as a big rattrap and all the men and women as rats vulnerable to be trapped to various types of baits. He himself got trapped in this rattrap when he stole thirty kronor of the old crofter.
He was always in search of securing some money, by hook or crook. As a result he got into trouble the second time when the Ironmaster mistook him for an old companion and he did not correct him. However, there was some goodness left in him that was brought to surface by kind Edla, the Ironmaster’s elder daughter. At the end he transformed himself and returned the stolen money to the crofter through Edla.

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Answer 2

As is quite evident from the story, the peddler did not have enough money to feed himself completely and find adequate standards for living; which forced him to steal. Although he was given shelter and food at the cronor's house, he was still tempted to steal because of his hardships. But as soon as he realised that he had done wrong and had been trapped in a rattrap, he did apologise for his mistake and proved that though he was poor and impoverished, but he still had humanity left in him. His last gesture at the ironmaster's house was quite enough to prove that he had the power to clear himself.