Why was the mother pleased to have the umbrella?
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Answer:
I saw his lips moving as he gave his order. The barman turned away from him for a few seconds and came back with a smallish tumbler filled to the brim with light brown liquid. The little man placed a pound note on the counter. 'That's my pound!
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Explanation:
She tells the reader her age and introduces her narrative as "a funny thing." So everything that happens to the girl and her mother will seem to be funny to the girl. Otherwise, the incident might not seem particularly funny. After all, this old man is stealing umbrellas in order to drink a lot of straight whiskey. The owner of the umbrella which the old man sells to the girl's mother would not think it was funny. The umbrella was supposedly worth twenty pounds, which was equivalent to about a hundred American dollars at that time and equivalent to ten or twenty times as much in today's dollars. But perhaps we shouldn't feel sorry for any man who could afford such an expensive umbrella.
The narrator's mother doesn’t think what happened to her is funny. She is stuck with a stolen umbrella and probably can’t decide what to do with it. She would have no way of returning it to the owner, and she wouldn’t even know which pub it had been stolen from. It was certainly not taken from the pub where they see the man downing a triple-shot of whiskey.
What did the twelve-year-old narrator think was so funny? She is probably amused at the realization that such things happen in the world. She is young and doesn’t get to town very often. She is also secretly amused by the way her mother was so completely taken in by the old man’s story. The mother