Question

Answer in your own word.

What are the instances which create humour in “The Luncheon”?

Answer 1

The instances in the story that creates humor are:

1. when the writer sees the woman at Foyot's
2. when she orders dish after dish, after first saying that she eats nothing for luncheon, and then insisting that she ate only one thing for luncheon.
3. when she tells the writer, who is dating only a mutton chop, that he should not overload his stomach.
4. when she says that the writer has insisted on her eating asparagus.
5. when the writer imagines what he would do while paying the bill.
6. when the writer says that he would not eat anything for dinner that night.
7. when the writer tells us the woman's weight when he sees her again after twenty years.