Question

In what sense was the world a big rattrap according to peddler

Answer 1

. The peddler was a very poor man who earned his living by selling rattraps he made himself from the materials he got by begging. His mind, thus, was always preoccupied with rattraps. One day, he suddenly thought of the whole world was a big rattrap. He felt that the shelter, food, clothes, riches and joys that the world provided were all baits set to entrap man just as a rattrap offered cheese or meat to entrap rats. As soon as one was trapped, everything came to an end.

Answer 2

The peddler felt that the whole world was a rattrap.

According to him, just like there were foods, shelter and other comforts in a rattrap, similarly, the world also gave shelter, food and other luxuries to human beings to later catch them in the world's trap. Being a rattrap seller, has felt the whole world to be a rattrap.