The narrator is good at heart but lacks the attributes of a real lawyer. Do you agree? Discuss with reference to ‘The
Hack Driver’.
Answers
Answer:
Question 1.
What job did the narrator get after graduation? Did he like his work?
Answer:
After doing his graduation, the narrator got the job of a junior assistant clerk in a law firm. No, he did not like his work. He had to serve a summons on the wanted people. He had to visit many dirty places. He never liked his work.
Question 2.
Why was he happy to go to New Mullion? Why did he go there?
Answer:
The narrator did not like the dirty and dark sides of the city life. He thought that he would find some pleasant sights in New Mullion. So, he was happy to go there.He went there to serve summons on Oliver Lutkins.
Question 3.
Why did the lawyer find the sight at the station’ “agreeable”?
Answer:
The narrator was disappointed to see the dirty roads and rows of wooden shops. But there was a man
who made the dull scene of the station agreeable by adding his cheerfulness.
He was the delivery man at the station.
Question 4.
How did the hack driver sketch the character of Lutkins?
Answer:
In fact, the hack driver was Lutkins himself. He sketched Lutkins as a very clever man who was good
at deceiving people. He never repaid the money he had taken from others.
He had a passion for Poker.
Question 5.
The narrator and the hack driver drove around together to find Lutkins.
(i) Which were the places they visited?
(ii) Why couldn’t they find Lutkins?
Answer:
(i) The hack driver took the narrator to almost all the places where Lutkins could be found. They visited Fritz’s shop, GustafFs shop, Gray’s stop, the pool room and Lutkins mother’s farmhouse.
(ii) They could not find Lutkins because the Hack driver was Lutkins himself.
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