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Evans Tries An O-Level
Why is Stephens compared to a woman who would get up twenty times to check the locked front door?
Stephens is a man of unconvincing nature. He was asked to accompany McLeery to the main prison gates. Further he was asked to see that the door was locked as Evans after McLeery had left the cell. Here Stephens behaved like a whimsical woman who would check twenty times that he had locked the front door. Thus Stephens rushed to the cell of Evans to make sure that it was properly locked.
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Do the Governor and his staff finally heave a sigh of relief?
Will the injured McLeery be able to help the prison officers trace Evans?
Will the clues left behind on the question paper put Evans back in prison again?
Where did Evans go?
Reflecting on the story, what did you feel about Evans having the last laugh?
When Stephens comes back to the cell he jumps to a conclusion and the whole machinery blindly goes by his assumption without even checking the identity of the injured “McLeery.” Does this show how hasty conjectures prevent one from seeing the obvious? How is the criminal able to predict such negligence?
What could the Governor have done to securely bring back Evans to prison when he caught him at The Golden Lion? Does that final act of foolishness really prove that ‘he was just another good-for-a-giggle, gullible Governor, that was all’?
While we condemn the crime, we are sympathetic to the criminal. Is this the reason why prison staff often develop a soft corner for those in custody?
Do you agree that between crime and punishment, it is mainly a battle of wits?
Who was Evans and what was his desire about his education?
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