Hence, he not only offers the umbrella to 'melt' the lady's heart, but also he tries to establish the fact that a pound is now worth a million dollar to him since his 'silly old legs are too exhausted to take him back home by walking.Īs such, he into selling a 'twenty pound' umbrella just for a single pound.

The old man had already judged that the narrator's mother would be tempted to have a silk umbrella for a pound, predominantly when she and her daughter are standing amidst heavy downpour. He nicks silk umbrellas from pubs and sells them off to hapless people in need of it, outside the pub. The lady realizes later that this canard is a customary chore of the old man. Actually, however, it is the umbrella man who ends up hoodwinking her. She gives away ‘the umbrella man’ a pound no matter how she is benefited by him by acquiring a silk umbrella in exchange of her donation. Though at the outset she is distrustful about the claim of the old man - that he is impecunious and thus, can't afford a taxi after a long evening walk, but in due course she gives in and is badly tricked. This is what he unerringly does with the narrator's mother. He is an elderly man, ready to swindle anyone for liquor. This is what the umbrella man establishs with his well-brought-up exterior. 'There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face'.

Though at the outset she is distrustful about the claim of the old man - that he is impecunious and thus, can't afford a taxi after a long evening walk, but in due course she gives in a A classic read this one !! Hilarious and briskly paced. A classic read this one !! Hilarious and briskly paced.

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