Question

Question 3: Why did the peddler decline the invitation?

Class 12 - English - The Rattrap Page 37

Answer 1

Hey there!!!

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The peddler declined the invitation of the ironmaster to go to his house. He had stolen thirty kronors from the house of the crofter who lived in that area. So the peddler thought that going up to the manor house would be like throwing himself voluntarily into the lion's den.
He was afraid if the ironmaster would came to know that he is a thief and then the police might arrest him.
So, he declined the ironmaster's invitation.

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Answer 2

The peddler declined the invitation because:-

• Hence, the given sentence has been taken from the story known as the rattrap.
• In the story, The rattrap, the peddler is a commoner, who has no ambitions or goals in life.
• The peddler is always suspicious of everything and everybody.
• He thinks that anybody who does anything good for him is going to set a trap for him.
• When the man offered him a place to sleep and food he declined the invitation.
• This shows us how much the peddler is skeptical about human nature and the difficulties he might have faced in his earlier part of life.