How does Pierre describe the eel pie of gaultier
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Answer:The Pie and the Tart is the story of two hungry beggars. Jean and Pierre are the homeless beggars who are roaming in the streets of France. Their condition is pathetic since they are shivering of cold and is extremely hungry. The society is unkind towards them and they are forced to steal food. This play tells how they tricked the cake shop owners into giving them an eel pie and a cranberry tart.Gaultier, the baker is proud, quick-tempered, snobbish and suspicious. He is about 50 years old and lives there with his wife Marion. The beggars are outside his shop and beg for alms. The couple shooed them away without giving any food or money. The Mayor of the town had invited Gaultier for lunch. Gaultier wants to present the Mayor with the big eel pie he had baked last Monday, but he is too proud to carry the food by himself through the streets. So he tells a plan to his wife – he would send a messenger to fetch the pie from her. Marion should identify the messenger when he asks her hand to kiss it. This plan is overheard by Jean who was still outside the cake shop.
Jean persuades Pierre to act as the messenger and get the pie from Marion. Since Pierre is starving he decides to do as Jean instructs. Pierre knocks on the door of the cake shop and when Marion opens it, tells her that he is the messenger sent by Gaultier to fetch the pie for the Mayor. Pierre identifies himself by asking for her hand and tries to kiss it. Marion snatches her hand away. She goes in to fetch the eel pie and gives it to him on a platter. Jean is exuberant and later relishes the eel pie with his friend.Gaultier was not able to meet the Mayor and he returns home angrily. Marion tells him that she had given the eel pie to the messenger he had sent. Gaultier shouts at her for her folly. Marion understands that she had been tricked.
Pierre had seen a cranberry tart in the shelf of the cake shop earlier. Along with Jean, they hatch a plan to trick Marion again. Jean is confident to go this time and knocks the door which is answered by the woman. Jean lies to her that her husband is asking for the cranberry tart.Marion understands the trick and plays along. She pretends to go inside to get the cranberry tart. She informs her husband, who runs out of the house angrily towards Jean. He hits the beggar who betrays his friend. Jean promises to fetch Pierre to the cake shop and runs away frightened. Jean lies to Pierre and sends him to Gaultier. Jean tells Pierre that Marion would give the tart to the same messenger who came for the eel pie. Pierre believes him and goes to the shop to find an extremely angry Gaultier. The sharp-witted Pierre informs the baker that he has given the eel pie to the Mayor and that the Mayor is expecting him for dinner. Gaultier forgets all the anger and prepares to leave the home to meet the Mayor. Pierre offers to help him carry the tart to the Mayor. Gaultier is duped by Pierre. The baker gives him the tart and asks him to inform the Mayor that he would meet him within five minutes. The play ends on a delightful note with Pierre offering the tart to Jean.
Characters and their Description
● Gaultier
He is a pastry cook and a simple man who is always angry. He is
also proud. He never thinks twice before speaking or doing something.
● Marion
She is a baker and obedient wife of Gaultier. They run a cake shop
together. She is younger than her husband, stout and attractive. She is not a kind
woman. She could be witty at times and is a good actor.
● Pierre
He is beggar roaming the freezing streets of 15th century France. Poverty-stricken but is witty and happy. He is logical, tactful and good with words. He is talkative.
● Jean
He is the companion of Pierre and is in the same condition. He is extremely
poor and is miserable. He is shrewd, lazy and talks less. He is not as tactful or jolly as
Pierre.
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