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| 1. | Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: [The young clerk is ushering in Dancy, whose face is perceptible harder than it was three months ago, like that of a man who has lived under great restraint] Dancy: He wanted to see me before the court sat. Young clerk : Yes, sir. Mr. Twisden will see you in one minute. He had to go out of town last night. Dancy: Were you in the war? (i) What reply does the clerk give? How is Dancy’s attitude towards civilian life different from the clerk’s?(ii) What information does Twisden give Dancy and why does he advise Dancy to go to Morocco? (iii) What is Colford’s reaction when reality comes to light? How does Margaret offer to help Dancy? (iv) When Dancy reaches home soon after, why is Mabel surprised to see him? What plea does she make to the Inspector on the arrival of the police?(v) How does Dancy commit suicide? Why does he call his death another jump? What term does Colford use to describe Dancy’s suicide? | 
| Answer» (i) The clerk says, “yes” he was in the war. The clerk found it as a trouble to stick to that kind of a lifestyle, whereas Dancy finds it difficult to stick to a civilian lifestyle. He gets no excitement from year’s end to year’s end. It’d drive him mad. (ii) Twisden tells Dancy that after the court rose the day before, they had a man called Ricardos. Ricardos accepted that Dancy had given his danghter one thousand pounds, who was a great friend of Dancy, as a settlement as Dancy married Mabel. Two notes of that amount were in possession of Twisden and were a clear evidence against Dancy. So Twisden gives him an advise to go to Morocco where a war was going on, since it would suit Dancy’s reckless lifestyle. Also, Twiden told Dancy that he had lost his honour and he couldn’t save his wife’s peace of mind. So he would better go. (iii) Colford reacts emotionally saying that if it were his own brother, he couldn’t feel it more. Margaret offers Twisden to put up her pearls up the spout again and pay back the money to De Levis and anyhow save Ronny. (iv) Mabel thought that Dancy was supposed to be in the courts but when he comes home, she is surprised, saying, “why are you back?” Mabel requests the inspector to come back in half an hour. (v) Dancy is in a room when the inspector comes. He locks the room from inside. Then, knowing that he had lost it all and there was po way out of it, he opens the door and says, “you can come in now” and simultaneous shoots himself with a pistol. Knowing that it was the only decent thing he could do, he calls his suicide as another dangerous jump, a leap that would spare him a lot of disgrace and dishonour. Colford uses the term Hara-Kiri. Hara-Kiri: The Samurai, a warrior group in Japan, formerly practised a ritual of committing suicide by cutting open thleir bowels. This they did to save themselves from the disgrace and dishonour in the hands of their enemies | |