Question

A photographer’s job is not to find faults in the outlook and personality of the people coming to get their photographs clicked. How does the author illustrate this idea through this story?

Answer 1

The author illustrates this idea through the photographer’s excessive criticism of the narrator’s appearance. Instead of simply capturing the narrator as he is, the photographer treats his face as something that must be corrected. He changes and retouches almost every feature until the photograph no longer resembles the narrator. Through humour and irony, the author shows that a photographer should preserve a person’s natural identity rather than impose an artificial idea of perfection.