Why did the photographer take so much time stephen leacock?
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What should have been a simple process of taking a photograph becomes something of a nightmare for the narrator. If anything the photographer is attempting to change the narrator and mold his image into something that pleases his eye rather than accepting what is real. That being how the narrator actually looks. It is also interesting that at first the narrator agrees with everything that the photographer says and this would further suggest that Leacock is exploring the theme of insecurity. It is as though the narrator lacks the confidence to stand up for himself and tell the photographer that he is unhappy with the route that is being taken by the photographer. However the narrator does begin to become more confident as he begins to realise how ridiculous the photographer’s requests are. It is only after losing his confidence and then regaining it that the narrator ends up standing up for himself.
When the author went to take his photograph taken, he experienced a totally different situation over there. After waiting for an hour when the author's chance came to be photographed, the photographer started to look at him very closely. The photographer wanted to take the best photograph of the author. He said that his face was not good, it was a wrong face. He started to make many changes in the way the author's face was in real. He asked the author to open and close his mouth, change the position of his ears, roll his eyes a bit and turn his face, hands, and knees. Because of these activities, the photographer took a lot of time to click one photograph of the author.