Literature

1. What kind of man was Little Chandler? In what way did his nickname fit him? In how many ways was Little Chandler Little? What did he do for a living? What was his secret ambition?
 A gentle melancholy.
 Because though he was slightly under the average stature, he gave one idea of being a little man.
 By his hands were white and small, his frame was fragile, his voice was quite and his manners were refined. He took the greatest care of his fair silken hair and moustache and used perfume discreetly on his handkerchief. The half moons of his nails were perfect and when he smiled you caught a glimpse of a roe of childish white teeth.

2. Why was his meeting with Ignatius Gallaher so keenly anticipated? Where was they are going to meet? With what daydreams (reveries) did he amuse himself on the way to the meeting?
Because Gallaher is his little old friend and they know each other well until finally they separated for eight years. They had a lunchtime for answer Gallaher’s invitation and of the great city London. There are some things that make his journey to the meeting is not amuse.

3. As Little Chandler recalled him, what kind of man was Gallaher? What was he like as Chandler observed him at the bar?
 Ignatius Gallaher was wild. He did mix with a rakish set of fellows at that time, drank freely and borrowed money on all sides. But nobody denied him talent.
 When Gallaher took off his hat and displayed a large closely cropped head, his face was heavy, pale and clean-shaven. His eyes which were of bluish slate-color, relieved his unhealthy pallor and shone out plainly above the vivid orange tie he wore. Between this rival features the lips appeared very long and shapeless and colorless.

4. As the two men drank at the bar, a change came over Little Chandler. What kind of change? What caused it?
The change is Chandler felt that Gallaher’s accent and way of expressing himself did not please Chandler that there was something vulgar in his friend which he had not observed before. The caused perhaps it was only the result of living in London amid the bustled and competition press.

5. The scene shifted suddenly to Little Chandler’s home. What picture of Little Chandler did you get? Why truth about his marriage was now revealed?
• In Little Chandler house, he looked to Annie’s photograph. It makes him reminded of an accident when he had brought her wife pale blue summer blouse as a present one Saturday. It had cost him ten and elevenpence: but what an agony at nervousness it had cost him. How he had suffered that day to buy it. When he gave it she was very happy but when she knew about the price, she threw the blouse. How he had suffered that day, waiting at the shop door until the shop was empty, standing at the counter and trying to appear at his ease while the at the girl piled ladies` blouse before him, paying at the desk and forgetting to take up the odd penny of his change, being called back by the cashier, and finally, striving to hide his blushes as lie left the shop by examining the parcel to see it it was securely tied. When he brought home Annie kissed him and said it was very pretty and stylish; but when she heard the price she threw the blouse on the table and said it was a regular swindle to charge ten and elevenpence for it.
• He seems regret with his marriage. With his statements, “Could he not escape from his little house? Was it too late for him to try to live bravely like Gallaher? Could he go to London? There was the furniture still to be paid for”. If he could only write a book and published, that might open the way for him.
6. The child awoke and began to cry, interrupting Little Chandler`s reverie. What was he dreaming about? Why was he so upset by the child`s crying?
• He was dreaming if he can express about melancholy of his soul in verse like Byron, a poet.
• He was so upset because the child disturbed his dreaming with his child’s crying. His wife also became so angry because the child cried.

7. What is your explanation of the child’s violent sobbing? Had Little Chandler really “done anything” to the child, as Annie suspected? How did she meet the situation?
 The child strated crying, after the child woke up and heard the Little Chandler read the poem from his book. The poem express the melancholy because in the poem, there’s statement “whilst I return to view my Margaret’s tomb and scatter flowers on the dust I love”. It’s a pathetic statement. Maybe the child cried because he was influenced with that statement.
 No, he didn’t.
 She meet the situation, when she came into the room and she saw the child was crying and the Little Chandler was in the same room with the child.

8. What was the root of Little Chandler’s shame as he stood back and watched his wife quiet the child? Should he have wept “tears of remorse” ?
 The Little Chandler shame to himself because he couldn’t make a child hush, while his wife able to do that. No, he shouldn’t