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The Rattrap

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The reader’s sympathy is with the peddler right from the beginning of the story. Why is this so? Is the sympathy justified?

Or

The peddler stole money from the crofters window, yet we sympathise with him. Do you agree?

Solution

Right from the beginning the peddler is shown going around selling small rattraps of wire. He is struggling hard begging the wires to make the rattraps himself in his odd times. The business is not profitable so he takes to begging and small thievery also.

Once the peddler fell in the line of thought and concluded that the whole world with all its things, lands, seas, mountains, cities, villages is a big world rattrap. It offers joys, riches, clothing, shelter, food, heat which tempt anyone; if he touches the bait he is trapped and can never come out. This is a universal theme.

One knows and sees people trapped and others circling around the bait to get trapped. Even then everyone is moving downhill so does the peddler do. He steals from the old crofter's pouch, he does not like to undeceieve the ironmaster under temptation.

The reader feels himself moving along with the peddler without indulging in what he does. The reader sympathises with him because everytime he touches the bait, he clearly speaks of the big world rattrap. And it is his turn to be caught. He has evil forebodings but even then he flows downhill and finally, finds trapped. 'It is because of the young girl who has been remained nice also to him all day long on Christmas Eve that he musters up courage and behaves as if he is a real Captain, otherwise he would have been caught in the world rattrap. Finally, the change in the ways of the peddler wins the sympathy of all the readers, at the end of the story too.

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Some More Questions From The Rattrap Chapter

Why did he show the thirty kronor to the peddler?

Did the peddler respect the confidence reposed in him by the crofter?

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How did the peddler betray the confidence reposed in him by the Crofter in the rattrap?

What made the peddler think that he had indeed fallen into a rattrap?

Why did the ironmaster speak kindly to the peddler and invite him home?

Why did the peddler decline the invitation?

What made the peddler accept Edla Willmansson’s invitation?

Or

Having rejected the ironmaster’s invitation. Why did the peddler accept the one extended by his daughter?

What doubts did Edla have about the peddler?

When did the ironmaster realize his mistake?

What did the peddler say in his defence when it was clear that he was not the person the Ironmaster had thought he was?

Why did Edla still entertain the peddler even after she knew the truth about him?

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