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Question
Using the following points frame a character sketch of the narrator. Support each character trait with instances from the lesson.
- Diffident and timid
- Unusual behavior
- Ignorant about banking
- Nervous and careless
- Economical.
Solution
- Diffident and timid: The writer's salary had been raised to fifty dollars a month and the bank was the only safe place for it. So, he got diffident and timid to speak to the staff in that bank.
- Unusual behavior: When the narrator caught the sight of the Accountant, his voice went sepulchral. He asked for the manager and added solemnly, 'alone.' That was an unusual behavior of the writer.
- Ignorant about banking: The writer says, the moment he crosses the threshold of a bank, he becomes a hesitating jay and if he becomes to transact business there, he becomes an irresponsible idiot.
- Nervous and careless: He gets nervous about receiving the check-book to enter the amount to be withdrawn. The writer goes careless when he enters fifty-six dollars in the check instead of just six.
- Economical: The writer's attitude gets economical when he decides to keep his money in cash in his trousers pocket, and his savings in silver dollars in a sock.
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