The Great Goilsby Analysis

The story is set in a dark corner of the park where the dusk has fallen heavily. The author presents the dusk as the hour of the defeated, an ideal setting for people who have fallen fortunes or lost all their hopes. The dusk represents the cynical and pessimistic attitude of the people who come to the park in this hour to avoid being noticed. These people are completely merged with the darkness of the park and they do not want themselves to be noticed by other people which is in contrast to the people who moved in complete brightness of the city lights and screech of vehicles depicting the fact that they never had to admit failure in their life and could move with their heads held high among other people.
Gortsby , the main character of the
He had little pride left in him and not enough money to buy even a few chocolates or even as small as to pay his weekly lodging bill. He is compared to a fallen orchestra to whom nobody listens that is he is not cared by anybody not also even his own family members.
A young man quickly replaced the elderly man. The young man was example of disillusionment and defiance. When he sat on the bench, he uttered some harsh words angrily as if he wanted Gortsby to pay attention to his plight and Gortsby was trapped in his plan. He asked him what had went wrong with him and the young man explained to him how everything had went wrong with him from the time he had come to the city, how he found the hotel turned into a theatre and how he went to buy soap only to find that he has forgotten the name of the hotel where he was staying and place where it
This remark acted as a catalyst to the already existent thoughts in the mind of Gortsby regarding the credibility of the story of the young man.
Still Gortsby did not completely believe his story and he was clever enough to point to the weak point in his story that is the soap. But the young man was unable to show the only missing link of his story, the soap which he bought, which could have proved the genuineness of his story. But he was unable to show it citing that he must have lost it too.
But Gortsby was convinced that he was able to identify the trick of the young trickster to fool him and did not accede to his story. Meanwhile the young man had already left the park. Gortsby was basking with pride having recognized the trick of the trickster. Being confident about his judgement of the people around him he thought he had outclassed a trickster and even thought how the young man could have approached him by taking more precautions to make the story even more