Messages of the story the gold frame
Answers
The Character of Datta plays a vital role here to describe the story. He is the owner of ‘The Modern Frame’ shop. He gives the essence of how human mind is working with sentimental process. It is true that this story also gives the realistic flavor of irony & satire to the sense of observing and thinking. As it is said that every day is deferent, every day’s thinking is deferent and every lock’s key deferent so like that, here we put the character of Datta and another one is the customer. He used to put pictures into frames. One day a customer comes to Datta’s shop with a faded picture of an elderly person. The man in the picture has whiskers and a huge turban.
Datta decides to begin work at once. But then a terrible thing happens. A tin of enamel paint accidentally spills over the photo. Datta tries to rub the paint on the photo with a cloth but unfortunately half the face and the entire turban get erased. Datta is panic-stricken. He does not know what to do as the photograph is completely spoilt. As he looks around in dismay, an idea takes shape in Datta’s mind. That shows how his ideology is working here with dilemma in his mind but however he uses to manage it and later on he made frame with another similar face photo but still worriedness is visible from him.
When customer arrives and almost at once the customer shouts in anger, “What have you done?” Datta fears the worst. He thinks that his deception has been noticed. He had practiced several times how he would feign ignorance or deny it if he was accused of using a different photo. Before Datta can open his mouth, the customer continues shouting that while he had asked for an oval frame; Datta had used a square one! Datta realizes then that the customer had not noticed that the photo itself was different. He had merely objected to the frame. He is relieved, as he knows that at the most, he might have to change the frame. This is how partial of Datta is dignified here with concluding the things in his own way. It is so realistically humorous with satire the process of observing, thinking, and the sentimental blindness.