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I want a short summary of the story fritz

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Answered by MahadevanYogeshwari
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The Short story ‘Fritz’ written by Satyajit Ray published in his book ‘Collected Short Stories’ is about a Swiss doll named Fritz.

Jayanto, the protagonist, works in the editorial section of a newspaper and Shankar, the narrator is a school teacher. Both of them are great friends and have finally managed to get some time to go on a trip together. They decide to go to Bundi; a village in Rajasthan where Jayanto had been before in his childhood with his parents.

They stay at the Circuit house (a kind of guest house) where Jayanto had stayed before in his childhood due to his father’s frequent work trips there. Upon reaching, Shankar realises that Jayanto is in somewhat pensive mood and queries about it. Jayanto says that the old memories are rushing into his mind. Shankar thinks that being the overemotional guy Jayanto is, he’s being nostalgic, so he doesn’t say anything in that matter.

They go for sightseeing in the compound and suddenly Jayanto remembers that there was a tall deodar tree there. He searches for it and finds it at the end of the compound. He looks at the trunk searchingly and says here he had met a European but doesn’t exactly remember who it was or how they had met.

They return to the Circuit house where Dilwar, the cook, has prepared their dinner. Meanwhile Jayanto seems to remember the old memory of the European. He tells Shankar the tale about Fritz which Shankar hears amusedly. It was a one-foot tall Swiss doll brought from Switzerland by his uncle for him. He says he was very much attached to the doll and was devastated when two stray dogs had mutilated it. He had buried the doll’s remnants under the very same deodar tree.

Shankar is quite tired so he goes to bed but wakes up abruptly in the middle of the night and finds Jayanto sitting on his bed, looking perplexed. Upon asking the reason, Jayanto says that something had walked over his chest when he was asleep. Shankar assures that it could have been his dream but Jayanto shows him his pillow. Faint marks were there pointing to the fact that an animal had walked over it. Shankar does a thorough search of the place but doesn’t find any small animal like mice or rats. Shankar feels that his friend is just exaggerating but tells him soothing words nevertheless. After this they both go to sleep.

Answered by revamayekar1453
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The story begins with a conversation between two friends,Jayanto and Shankar.They are good friends and they had been planning for a trip for pretty long and had finally gotten the chance.They were visiting Bundi,Rajasthan where Jayanto's father,Animesh Das Gupta, who worked in the archaelogical department,used to bring him here as a child.As they worked their way throught the tour in Bundi,Jayanto was becoming somewhat pensive.Shankar know that his friend is emotional let it go the first time and thought of it to me a flood of memories and nostalgia hitting him.Jayanto told Shankar about a doll which was gifted to him by his uncle.The doll was a swiss doll,12 foot long,dressed in swiss attire.The shopkeeper had peculiarly told Jayanto's uncle to address the doll as Fritz else it won't respond.Some time passed by and the doll,Fritz,was torn apart and destroyed by two stray dogs.The doll was now dead for Jayanto.He had given the doll a proper funeral and buried it at the base of a deodar tree near its trunk.Jayanto had been somewhat in a trance  ever since visiting the deodar tree where Fritz was buried.He even had an experience which led the two friends to get a gardener and dig up the grave of the doll in order to give mental peace to Jayanto.When the grave is dug up,instead of finding decaying plastic or a metal buckle,they find a 12 foot long white skeleton just like a childs'.

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