Question

How did the writer finally take revenge on the lady guest in "the luncheon"

Answer 1

The writer did not take the revenge directly; it was fate or gods that had taken revenge. The lady had met the writer 20 years ago; the writer took her to a lunch where she ate so much. The writer had to pay an enormous bill. After twenty years when he met her again, he was satisfied to see her grow quite fat. Now she weighed twenty-one stones. The writer believed it to a revenge for making him spend so much of money twenty years ago.

Answer 2

In Luncheon by W Somerset Maugham, a woman in Paris has been invited to lunch by a struggling young writer. She had sent the writer a fan post about the book he published and he was pretty flattered by it. Indeed, he was so flattered that he wanted to take the lady to a lunch spot. Sadly, what had hoped to be a relaxing dinner soon transforms into an utter nightmare for the poverty-stricken scribbler

Explanation:

• The woman brings the writer to lunch at "Foyet," one of Paris 'most expensive restaurants, and is exploiting the writer mercilessly by pretending an interest in his writing which she probably doesn't really feel.  Around the same moment, the writer who was 20 years younger then, pretends to be modern, gallant and intellectual.
• The lady, who pretends she rarely consumes something for lunch, orders some of the most pricey items Foyot's has, including tuna, caviar and champagne, while the writer has to keep smiling, and have a insouciant facade while inwardly he is suffering agonies The fact that she orders everything a lacarte probably makes her feel she is just nibbling tidbits. The lady, only an admirer of the author does not even thinks of sharing the  bill with the writer, rather giving in to her greed, considering that the writer would have to pay. However, the writer that point in time did not take revenge on the lady
• After 20 years, the writer sees the women and at that time the lady was looking unattractive and was looking big and fat (weighing 136 kgs) and on seeing this, the writer finally feels that he had his revenge and that the lady had to pay for her greediness.

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