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प्रश्न
How do these lines capture the essence of the story:
‘Glory was all overlaid with dark shame. Glory was dead.’
‘… let him be wrapped a while in the lingering twilight splendour of departed glory’.
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उत्तर
The lines contrast a person’s once-proud past with the shame and hardship of the present: his former glory seems dead. Yet the wish to let him remain briefly in its “twilight splendour” expresses compassion and a desire to preserve his dignity. This contrast between lost prestige and lingering memories of better days captures the story’s central pathos.
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