Question

how does the author describe walk monger

Answer 1

Max Beerbohm’s ‘Going out for a Walk’ is a delicately humorous essay on the ridiculous vanity of going out for a walk. Beerbohm challenges the very notion that walking for its own sake is a noble and productive exercise.

Beerbohm begins by stating that he is an inveterate opponent of the habit of walking. Even when he was a toddler, he used to regret the good old days when he was an infant. He didn’t have to walk then, since he had a perambulator. He wasn’t a pram and so nobody would ever forcefully take him out for a walk.

But any grown up man will have to suffer the plight of a perambulator at least once in his life. The squalor and noise of the city saves you from being taken out for a walk. But in the country, some foolish walk monger may turn up at any moment and ask you to come out for a walk. And excuses may not always save you from leaving the comfort of reading in an armchair.