My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock.
Satavahana University Karimnagar- Degree II Year-Semester 3-English- 2021-22 onwards-Unit 1
It is a funny short story about the narrator’s experience at a bank. He knew beforehand that he was agitated at the sight of money,clerks,wickets and everything else in the bank.The narrator salary had been raised to 50 (fifty) dollars a month so he thought that the bank was the only place to save it.
He entered the bank and asked the clerk about the manager .The accountant took him to the manager. There narrator demanded manager to meet him 'alone'.The alarmed manager first thought that the narrator was a detective from Pinkerton agency, later a rich man. On hearing that the narrator visited the bank to open an account to deposit an amount of 56 dollars, the manager literally shoved him out of the room. The confused narrator accidentally stepped into the safe . Then he was sent to the accountant's wicket to deposit money. He pushed the ball of money into the counter.The nervous narrator had gone through the ordeal of opening an account and wrote fifty six dollars instead of the intended six dollars on the cheque. All the clerks looked at him surprisingly. He felt insulted by banking staff but decided to continue his drama to cover his stupidity .He withdrew all his amount from the bank.He made a fool of himself through his action. He heard a roar of laughter as he left the bank. The narrator, a phobic of banks, never dared to save his money in bank since then.
The writer explores the cold attitude of bankers towards common people in this short story.
Annotate the following lines from the story.
1) What are you drawing it all out again?” he asked in surprise. Then I realized that I had written fifty six instead of six.
Reference:-These lines are taken from Stephen Leacock’s short story “My Financial Career”. He was a Canadian writer, teacher, political scientist and humorist. The short story is extracted from his collection of humours fiction 'Literary Lapses'
Context:- It is about the narrator’s experience at a bank narrated in a humorous way. The narrator visited the bank to open an account to deposit a meager amount of 56 dollars as his salary had been raised to 50 dollars. The narrator had a fear of banks.
Meaning:- The nervous narrator had gone through the ordeal of opening an account and wrote fifty six (56)dollars instead of the intended six (06) dollars on the cheque.
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2) when I go into a bank I get rattled.
Reference:-These lines are taken from Stephen Leacock’s short story “My Financial Career”. He was a Canadian writer, teacher, political scientist and humorist. The short story is extracted from his collection of humours fiction 'Literary Lapses
Context:- It is a traumatic experience of the narrator in a bank when he goes to deposit 56 dollars.
Meaning:- The narrator feels nervous when he visits a bank. He gets jittery at the sight of money, clerks, wickets and everything else in the bank.
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3) You are one of Pinkerston's men, I presume he said.
Reference:-These lines are taken from Stephen Leacock’s short story “My Financial Career”. He was a Canadian writer, teacher, political scientist and humorist. The short story is extracted from his collection of humours fiction 'Literary Lapses
Context:- It is about the narrator’s experience at a bank narrated in a humorous way. The narrator visited the bank to open an account to deposit a meager amount of 56 dollars as his salary had been raised to 50 dollars. The narrator had a fear of banks surroundings.
Meaning:-
The narrator entered the bank and asked the clerk about the manager .The accountant took him to the manager. There narrator demanded manager to meet him 'alone'.The alarmed manager with the narrator's mysterious manner assumed that the narrator was a detective from Pinkerton agency
S.Rajesh kumar.
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