Question

What types of differences did writer find in behavior of rattrap?​

Answer 1

The story is told in the manner of a fairy late and starts with ‘once upon a time there was a poor man who sold rat-traps of wire’. His income from the traps was not enough. So he also begged and stole petty things at times. Once an idea struck him that the world was like a rat-trap full of temptations to trap men. Man is tempted by the baits of wealth, power like a rat is tempted by the cheese in a rat trap. The man selling rat-traps lived a poor life without enough food or proper shelter. So he looked upon the world like this in the light of his own sufferings. Once he took shelter in the house of a man who had been a crofter in Ramsjo Iron-Works. The man was without any family and lonely. He welcomed the peddler.