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Describe the rattrap peddler’s meeting with the crofter. How is it important in the story? |
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Answer» The peddler expected sour faces when he knocked at the door and requested for the night shelter. But the crofter was happy to get someone to talk to in his loneliness. He immediately put the porridge put on fire and gave the peddler supper. Then he cut a big slice of tobacco for the stranger’s pipe to smoke. He told him of his cow that supported him and showed him the thirty kroner he had received in payment last month. The old crofter was a liberal man. In the morning half an hour after they had left together, the peddler came and stole the thirty kroner note from the pouch. Thus, the peddler breached the confidence reposed in him by the crofter. The incident is important as it serves as a contrast to his response to Edla after he is reformed. It serves to highlight his journey from an ungrateful wretch to a dignified person. |
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