Question

write a brief character sketch of mrs packletide ?<br />

Answer 1

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Mrs. Packletide was an English lady of high tastes. She came to know that her friend Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator. She was smitten with great jealousy. Mrs.Packletide wanted to outshine her. She had a strong desire to do something for belitting Loona 's adventure. So she decided to hunt a tiger and to procure his skin. If successful in doing so, her photographs would appear in the papers.

Answer 2

Mrs. Packletide, as portrayed in the story, is a typical woman. She is competitive, jealous, materialistic and vain. When Loona Bimberton tells her about the personally procured tiger skin, she immediately decides to honour her and present her a tiger-claw brooch. This incident points towards her competitive and jealous nature. In order to hunt the tiger by all means, she goes to the extent of offering one thousand rupees to the villagers for shooting a tiger without any risk or exertion. In the end when she killed the goat instead of the tiger, the paid companion, Louisa tries to blackmail her by asking for a cottage which she does buy so that none comes to know the truth. So, she is a worldly lady who cares more for her reputation than her money.


Mrs. Packletide's life was governed by purely selfish motives of exhibiting herself over others. While Louisa Mebbin was no better, she demonstrates a deplorable moral conduct when she blackmails her employer over the incident of the tiger shooting and exploits her for personal gain.