“She was an interesting girl,” – Who said this to whom and when? What else did the person say? What reply did he get?
The narrators Ruskin Bond’s short story “The Eyes Have It” said this to the man, his second co-passenger who boarded the train at Saharanpur. When the fellow Traveler told the narrator that he was not nearly as attractive a travelling companion as the one who had just left, then the narrator said the above quoted line. The ...
“I’m not nearly as attractive a travelling companion as the one who just left.” – Who is the speaker? Who left? What did the speaker mean by this statement?
The speaker of the above line is the second co passenger of the blind narrator, who boarded the train at Saharanpur. The girl who got into the train at Rohana and travelled with the narrator till Saharanpur had just left. The girl got down from the train at Saharanpur and the new passenger entered the compartment. The beautiful ...
“The man who had entered the compartment broke into my reverie.” – Whose reverie is referred to here? What was the reverie about? How was the reverie broken?
The reverie of the network is referred to here. The reverie was about the brief meeting with the girl who boarded the train at Rohana. The narrator was daydreaming about his short and sweet interaction with the girl and how they exchanged views on various topics like the beauty of the hills in October, The view ...
“So many things were happening outside the window, it could be a fascinating game.”- What could be a fascinating game? When did the narrator think so? What things did the narrator perceive as the train reached and left Saharanpur?
Since the narrator was blind, guessing what went on outside the window was a fascinating game to him. The narrator thought so when the girl got off at Saharanpur and a new traveler boarded the compartment. The narrator sat in front of the window and started into the daylight that was darkness for him. As the train reached ...
She was standing very close to me,”- whom does ‘she’ refer to? When and why was ‘she’ standing very close to the narrator? What was the effect of her proximity to the narrator?
In the line mentioned above ‘she’ refers to the girls who accompanied the narrator from Rohana till Saharanpur. When the engine whistle shrieked, the carriage wheels changed their sound and rhythm, the girl got up and started collecting her things. She was about to get off at Saharanpur station where her aunt was waiting for ...
