Question

Question 1 “At last a sympathetic audience.” (i) Who says this? (ii) Why does he say it? (iii) Is he sarcastic or serious?

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Answer 1

i) Gerrard says the given line.

ii) Gerrard said so as the intruder had asked him to talk about himself.

iii) Gerrard was being sarcastic as the intruder or the audience was in no ways sympathetic as he had told Gerrard, at gunpoint, to talk about himself so that he could further his own interests.

Answer 2

Heya,

Here are the answers:-

i) The speaker of these lines is Gerrard.

ii)He says these when the intruder had asked him to speak about himself.

iii) He was sarcastic as the speaker i.e, the intruder was not sympathetic . When he was about to shoot Gerrard he asked him to talk about himself so that he could make use of the information to know his interests .

Hope it helps u ...