Question

He is little better than a beggar said the mayor looking at the statue. why did he say so

Answer 1

The statue of the happy prince was completely destroyed when he lost his jewels . Now he was not looking like a prince but a beggar . That's why the mayor said prince to be looking like little better than a begger.


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Answer 2

Answer:

The mayor speaks the given statement when he  finds the statue of the Happy Prince without its embellishment. The statue stood bare, ripped off its  fineries, the pricey stones. This statement is ironical  in two ways. Firstly, the value of a statue or a person  is decided by its external appearance or beauty. As  long as the statue of the Happy Prince was beautiful,

decked up with precious stones, it was valuable. As  soon as it lost its embellishment, the mayor scoffed at  it. He didn’t see the Happy Prince’s innate beauty. The  irony was that when he was alive, the Happy Prince  had inherited his Princehood. But after his death, he  became a real Prince, attained his Princehood from  his sacrifice to make others life happy.

The other irony that strikes us hard is that it was the same wealthy Happy prince who was now a  beggar. The Happy Prince had got his name because  he was always happy. He had never experienced sorrow  and misery in his life. He didn’t know what tears were.  But he became a beggar in his silent sacrifice to wipe  the tears of the poor.