Theme of snake and the mirror
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The humorous anecdote revolves round the theme of human vanity and fears and how they affect people. The narrator is a homeopath doctor who is struggling with his poverty and sluggish practice. Nonetheless, he is vain about his looks with or without his moustache and beard, and has the ambition of looking more and more handsome. He also hopes to marry and lead a happy life. A sudden arrival of a snake on the scene turns him pale with fear, but somehow he manages to keep his calm. Meanwhile, attracted by the mirror, the snake decides to ignore him. The narrator takes this opportunity to make good his escape. The snake appears to be almost as vain as the doctor himself. An allied theme in the story is how crises make people turn to God for help.