Write a character sketch of the hack driver.
CBSE 2020
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Sinclair Lewis's 'The Hack Driver' is about Oliver Lutkins, who is the witness of a case, appears to be a cunning man who refused to appear as a witness. A young lawyer is appointed in order to search for Lutkins where he meets the hack driver and helps the lawyer to search for Lutkins. As the lawyer fails to find Lutkins when the case came up in court, he was asked to go to New Mullion. Later, the lawyer discovers that Lutkins was the hack driver and by this, he becomes shocked and feels humiliated. Therefore he learns on not being hast while judging someone. A later lawyer learns from Bill that Lutkins is great in deceiving people as he played poker a lot.
The hack driver pretends to be Bill Magnuson, the hack driver and manages to cheat the narrator of his money. He manages to convey the lawyer that it is very difficult to trace Lutkins. He takes the lawyer to many shops but does not allow the lawyer to directly talk with the people...