What fresh problem now disturbs Mme Loisel?
Firstly, she was irritated to see the invitation card that is given by her husband. She didn’t have a dress to wear. Eventually, she bought a new dress and after buying a pretty dress mme loisel was bothered by an another problem. She was worried and disturbed as she had no jewel too adorn herself with. She said they would have a poverty stricken look. Her husband recommended that she should wear some natural flowers. However, she refused to wear and said that there was nothing humiliating than to have a shabby air in the midst of rich women.
What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?
The course of the Loisels’ life changed due to the necklace. Comment.
If you were caught in a situation like this, how would you have dealt with it?
How do they replace the necklace?
What would have happened to Matilda if she had confessed to her friend that she had lost her necklace?
What do M. and Mme Loisel do next?
What kind of a person is her husband?
What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?
How is the problem solved?
Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
How did the invisible man first become visible?
How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?
Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?
Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?
Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? Look back at his detailed description of it. What makes it a convincing story?
Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?
If you were in Noodle’s place, how would you handle Think-Tank’s mistakes?
Who tried to invade the earth in the twenty-first century?
Why does the marriage not take place?
What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: Compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: “Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?
How has Max got in?
Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady was not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what point did you realise this, and how?
How did Bholi’s teacher play an important role in changing the course of her life?
Do you think Tricki was happy to go home? What do you think will happen now?