Snake and the mirror charakter seketh docter
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Explanation:
The homoeopathic doctor is the protagonist of the story The Snake and the Mirror by
the renowned Malayalam writer Vaikom Mohammed Basheer. The story is a humorous
account of the doctor’s encounter with a cobra. He is a young and unmarried doctor
recently set up his medical practice, and therefore, his income is very meagre. He is
staying alone in a rented house, and there are lots of rats to share the room with him. He
is very beauty-conscious and often lives in the world of dreams. He believes that he has
more acceptance in the society as he is a young, handsome bachelor and a doctor by
profession. He seems that he wants to be rich by a short-cut way. He wants to marry a
rich, young woman doctor having a good medical practice. His humour sense is revealed
when he says that he wants to marry a fat lady for a valid reason. The reason is that she
should not be able to chase and catch him if he did some silly mistake and needed to run
away. One night, as usual when he was in a flight of fancy sitting in front of the mirror in
his room, a big cobra slithered up on him and coiled on his left arm. Despite he had to sit
like a stone image in fright, he did not lose his presence of mind. In the helpless situation
he could not but rely on the mercy of God, and he pathetically scribed the words ‘O God’
on the walls of his heart, though he had not been that much religious till then. Seeing its
image in the mirror, the snake left him and moved towards it leaving him. He jumped out
of the room and ran for his life until he reached his friends. The doctor is a jovial person
having a good circle-of-friends. He likes killing times with them smoking beedis,
discussing various topics and telling stories. The ‘snake story’ is one of such stories.