Dusk Questions and Answers
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In "Dusk," where was Gortsby when this incident took place and what was he doing there?
In "Dusk," the main character Gortsby was sitting in Hyde Park of London. It was about 6:30 in the evening, right before dark. Gortsby's philosophy was that those who are defeated come out at dusk,...
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Appearances can often be deceptive. How has Saki brought out this point in his story "Dusk?"
In Saki's short story "Dusk," the narrator details the fact that "Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated." By stating this, one can assume that those who come out at dusk are those who are...
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I want to know about the language used in the story "Dusk." "Dusk" by Saki
In his story "Dusk," author Saki employs light/dark imagery to create a certain mystery in his narrative; in addition, his skillful utilization of irony and satire enhances the startling effect of...
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"Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of defeated." Explain?
To understand what the author is saying, go a little past the line that you mention. There, you will see him explain the meaning of this line. What the author is saying is that dusk is a time when...
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Comment on the appropriateness of the title of the story "Dusk."
The title of Saki's short story "Dusk" can be looked at as appropriate to the movement and setting of the story. Given that the story takes place at six o'clock on a March night, light is fleeting....
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Describe the park in Saki's story "Dusk." The park in which Gortsby sits .
The setting for Saki's story, "Dusk" is London at Hyde Park Corner where there is a park that is bound by bushes and fence against the busy noise of traffic and blazing city lights with the...
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What impression do you form of the young man in the story "Dusk" by Saki? Was he a fraud or plain lucky?
In the story "Dusk," the young man is a fraud. He tells a very deceptive story about how he has lost his way back to his hotel. When he sits down on the park bench, he has one goal in mind. He is...
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Can anyone tell the summary of "Dusk"?
In the story "Dusk," Gortsby is sitting on a park bench. Gortsby has a theory. He believes people who live defeated lives wander about at dusk. Dusk is the time of day when it is almost dark. It is...
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While waking back to his seat in the park what did Gortsby see?
Gortsby has been having a brief conversation with a young man on a park bench. The young man has taken the place of an elderly gent, whom Gortsby imagines has gone home to what he presumes to be...
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In "Dusk," did the young man show his temper just to attract Gortsby's attention?
It certainly seems apparent that the young man was showing his temper just to attract Gortsby's attention and get him to listen to a con artist's story about not being able to find his hotel and...
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In relation to the story "Dusk," how is an unsuccessful person suppressed by a successful person?
Saki describes the setting of "Dusk" from the point of view of a young man called Norman Gortsby. Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid...
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Who is Norman Gortsby in the short story "Dusk"?
Norman Gortsby is the protagonist and narrator of the short story "Dusk" by Saki. Not much is known about Gortsby, such as his life or occupation, other than the fact that he likes to ruminate on...
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What are the elements of irony in Saki's "Dusk"?
This story also connects with the idea of hope: when Gortsby becomes convinced that the stranger is really a young aristocrat from the country, Gortsby rushes after him to give him some money,...
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What is the style of the short story dusk by saki?
A brillant satirist, Saki is true to his inimitable style of ironic deception and clever dialogue that reveals his unsentimental depiction of life in his comedy of manners, "Dusk." Ridiculing the...
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In "Dusk," how is the setting used for different purposes?
Dusk is used first to establish a mood. It is the time when the day ends and the night takes over. Daytime is busy. Nighttime is relaxed. No doubt the viewpoint character has put in a long day at...
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Similarity between the characters of the old man in 'Umbrella Man' by Roald Dahl and the Youth from ' Dusk' by Saki...
Both the young con man in "Dusk" and the old man in "The Umbrella Man" have concocted stories that will bring them relatively large sums of money if they have the desired effect on the victim. If...
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Why is dusk is said to be the hour of the defeated in "Dusk"?
Let us remember that this interpretation only is in the mind of the protagonist, Gortsby, who enjoys dusk because of the way that he associates it with "the hour of the defeated." Note what he says...
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In "Dusk," the author depicts the characters using word pictures which are appropriate words to describe people. Give...
The imagery used in Saki's short story, "Dusk," to describe the characters is very direct. Engaged readers are offered such detailed descriptions that they (the readers) can easily create mental...
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What do you think about the Norman Gortsby in the story "Dusk"?
Norman Gortsby is the viewpoint character in "Dusk." The author's intention is to show Norman having a learning experience which will convey a message to the reader. At first Norman does not feel...
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What is the punchline of the story "Dusk"?
Norman Gortsby is sitting on a park bench when another man comes before him claiming to be lost in London. He weaves a story in which he had gone out from his hotel to buy a bar of soap and have a...
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Where is "the Row" that is mentioned in "Dusk?" Norman Gortsby sat on a bench in the Park, with his back to a...
My best suggestion for you is that you should use Google maps to look at the location of this story. All you have to do to use it is go to Google.com and click on the "maps" link. (Or follow the...
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"External circumstances can be deceptive." Discuss this with reference to the story "Dusk" by Saki.
Of course, the quote you have cited could be argued to be the main message of this excellent story that uses situational irony so well in its ending. Note how the story is told using the third...
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Please imagine an alternative outcome to the story "Dusk." Please imagine an alternative outcome to the story...
I often have a problem with these kinds of questions because they infer that there is something wrong with the ending that the author chose. Clearly, if we think about the story, what makes it so...
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In the story "Dusk," what makes Norman Gortsby realise that dusk was the hour of the defeated as well as of the...
Saki's protagonist, Norman Gortsby, believes that "Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated." Ironically, given that Norman is out at dusk, Norman is admitting that he, himself, is defeated....
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In "Dusk" by Saki, does the young man really deserve to be helped and sympathized with?
The young man who comes and sits beside Norman Gortsby is obviously practicing to be a con artist. Gortsby proves this when he listens to the hard-luck story and then tells him: "Of course," said...
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Comparison between the tricksters of "Dusk" and "The Umbrella Man."
It is interesting to compare the three characters in Saki's "Dusk" with the three characters in Dahl's "The Umbrella Man." In "Dusk" all three characters-- Gortsby, the young con man, and the...
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Why is Norman Gortsby heartsore? Did he suffer from a financial crisis? What could he have done to prevent this...
Joining what he perceives as men and woman who hide their "fallen fortunes and dead hopes" in the twilight as they sit on benches or stroll in Hyde Park, Norman Grotsby is "in a mood to count...
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Do you think the young man's appearance helped him to win the confidence of Gortsby in "Dusk"?
The fact that the young man who sits by Gortsby is well dressed certainly lends credibility to his story of being on what seems to be a business trip, and his unfamiliarity with London. It also...
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Can you give me a summary of "Dusk"?
The story is told from the viewpoint of a young Londoner named Norman Gortsby. He is certainly not a gentleman of leisure but probably a man with a good position in a bank, brokerage, or trading...
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What do we know about Gortsby's mood from lines 1-3 in "Dusk" by Saki?
The scene depicted of Gortsby is that of a solitary figure in an almost deserted place. This scene suggests that Gortsby is, perhaps, despondent or embittered because he seems to desire no human...
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Justify the title "Dusk" with close reference to the story?
Saki devotes considerable attention to describing one section of the city at dusk. The scene pleased Gortsby and harmonized with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated....
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Dusk is an appropriate time for confidence tricksters to operate. Elucidate with reference to the story "Dusk."
In the short story "Dusk," the time of day is an appropriate time for tricksters to come out of hiding. As Gortsby sits on a park bench, he encounters two different type of men. The first man is an...
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If you were Gortsby from "Dusk," what would you have done differently when you met the young man that evening?...
While sitting on the bench at "Dusk," Gortsby thinks depressing thoughts, associating the time of day with defeat and with hiding from others. When the young man sits down next to him, visibly...
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Explain or paraphrase the story "Dusk" by Saki.
A more specific question would help you to get a better answer... This is the story of Norman Gortsby. He is sitting on a park bench next to a bum. The bum leaves and another man comes up and...
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In "Dusk," what type of character does Norman Gortsby have?
The article on Saki in Wikipedia states: "Politically, Munro was a Tory and somewhat reactionary in his views." It gives as a reference an essay by Dominic Hibberd in the Oxford Dictionary of...
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What would be the characterization of Norman Gortsby?
The story "Dusk" by Saki is about a man who gets duped despite of his self-proclaimed attainments in the understanding of people and their behaviors. This self-proclaimed ability to analyze people...
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In the story "Dusk," what impression do you form about the young man in the story? Do you think he is smart and...
In the story "Dusk," the young man is plain lucky. When he cannot produce a bar of soap, Gortsby does not believe his story. The young man tells a story of forgetting where his hotel is. He claims...
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Compare the stories "Dusk" and "The Umbrella Man."
Jim Thompson, a very good writer of hardboiled novels, describes what he calls "short cons" in his novel The Grifters, which has been made into a movie like many of Thompson's other novels,...
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Give the meaning of "...not disinclined to take a certain cynical pleasure in observing and labelling his fellow...
The double negative in the words "not disinclined" means essentially the same as "inclined." The word "inclined" itself is a modification of the notion that Gortsby was enjoying other people's...
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The elderly gentleman as well as the young gentleman in the story "Dusk" by Saki (H. H. Munro) are unnamed, though...
By not naming either the young man or the old man in his story, Saki underscores the fact that they are both strangers. This is also implicit in the fact that it is getting dark, so that Gortsby...
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Could I have a character sketch of the con man in "Dusk"?
In the short story "Dusk," the young man who sits down on the bench next to Gortsby is a con man. The younger man is a scam artist. He tricks Gortsby out of his money. When the younger man sits...
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In the story "Dusk," by Saki, what is meant by "requisite decency?"
The actual wording in the story is as follows: "...one could go to one's Consul and get the requisite help from him....Unless i can find some decent chap to swallow my story and lend me some money...
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In "Dusk" by Saki discuss the events that lead Gortsby's thinking that he shouldn't be too clever in judging by...
Norman Gortsby is a rather cynical character who sits in the "gloaming" hour on a bench in London's Hyde Park where others of fallen fortune and hopes walk by. As Gortsby, who has failed in some...
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What role does the time of day make in the story "Dusk" by Saki?
The title "Dusk" and the description of dusk in London have a practical purpose in addition to establishing a scene and a mood. The young con man who sits down beside Gortsby has supposedly been...
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External circumstance can be deceptive. Discuss this with reference to the story "Dusk."
This story is about the main character, Norman Gortsby, getting fooled by a con artist. Because of that, the story is really all about someone looking at external circumstances and being deceived...
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How does the whole story of Dusk signify that dusk is the hour of the defeated?
Saki's short story Dusk signifies that dusk is the hour of the defeated in a couple different ways. First, Norman Gortsby (the protagonist) of the story states very blatantly the fact that only...
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What are similarities between the con men in "Dusk" and in "The Umbrella Man"?
Stories like "Dusk" and "The Umbrella Man" owe their existence to the great American genius Edgar Allan Poe, who published an essay titled "Diddling" in 1850. "Diddling" was the term Poe used to...
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Appropriateness of the title in Saki's "Dusk"?
The main reason for Saki's setting his story at that specific time and even giving the story the title "Dusk" had to do with the fact that the confidence men could not operate safely in broad...
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In "Dusk," by referring to the incidents in the story, state how dusk is said to be "the hour of defeated."
The first part of this answer lies in the way that Gortsby imagines the people who come out at the hour of dusk, which, in his mind, is a time for those who have failed in life to emerge. Note how...
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After telling his story, how does the young man create for Grotsky an atmosphere for his credibility? refer to the...
The cynical Grotsky sits on a bench at twilight in Hyde Park because the scene "harmonised with his present mood." In Grotsky's mind, dusk is the "hour of the defeated." While he watches the...
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