Why the wood was compared to a rattrap?
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The rattrap seller was a poor vagabond, wearing shabby ragged clothes. He sold rattraps to earn a very meager livelihood. At times he resorted to petty thievery. He considered the entire world as a big rattrap and all the men and women as rats vulnerable to be trapped to various types of baits. He had developed this philosophy over the years. He had been treated badly by the world. So, he had begun to think ill of the world. He himself got trapped in this rattrap when he stole thirty kronor of the old crofter.
After stealing 30 kronor from the old crofter, when he decided to move through a forest, in order to be safe from police, he got lost in it. In spite of trying very hard to come out of the forest, he could not succeed. He felt like a rat trapped in a trap of the forest.