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The Rattrap

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As Miss Edla Willmansson you have been able to awaken the basic inherent virtue of goodness in a rattrap peddler. Write a letter to your friend Lalitha Mathew telling about your experience with the peddler.

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63 Jor Bagh

New Delhi

26 July 200...

Dear Lalitha,

You will be surprised to know that I have recently succeeded in awakening the essential human virtue of goodness in a poor peddler selling small rattraps. One dark evening my father mistook him as a captain from his regiment. The stranger was in rags, with sunken cheeks, hunger gleaming eyes and a long beard. Many rattraps hung on his chest. My father persuaded him to stay with them in the manor house on the Christmas Eve. But he refused. At my father's request. I had to go to pursuade him. He develops faith in me. Still he looked frightened as if he had stolen something or had escaped from jail. Not to speak of his being a captain once, he even did not look an educated man. Later when he was well dressed on wearing my father's lovely suit, my father realised his mistake of taking him a regimental comrade. But I treated him nice and made him comfortable at home. My father was admant for his presence but I pleaded for his stay. I extended him the invitation for the next Christmas Eve. While leaving he left a Christmas present and thanked for saving him from falling into the world’s rattrap. Rest when meet in the near future.
Yours truly
Edla Willmansson.

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Some More Questions From The Rattrap Chapter

Why did the peddler decline the invitation?

What made the peddler accept Edla Willmansson’s invitation?

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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?

Why was Edla happy to see the gift left by the peddler?

Why did the peddler sign himself as Captain Von Stahle?

How does the peddler interpret the acts of kindness and hospitality shown by the crofter, the ironmaster and his daughter?

What are the instances in the story that show that the character of Ironmaster is different from that of his daughter in many ways?

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Compare and contract the character of the iron-master with that of his daughter.

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Give examples from the story ‘The Rattrap’ to show how the iron master is different from his daughter?

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