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By Robert Arthur
1. “Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read.” What do secret agents in books and films look like, in your opinion.
Ausable was a fat and a soft spoken person. He did not fit into the description of a secret agent. Secret agents in fiction are projected like ideal men, 'Tall, dark and handsome'. They are usually well built and keep beautiful women for company. They would always smoke pipe or cigar and do death defying stunts.
2. How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? Look back at his detailed description of it. What makes it a convincing story?
Ausable creates a detailed description of how his room was part of a bigger apartment and how the next room had a direct connection with a balcony. His statement that somebody else also broke into his room through that balcony earlier made it a convincing story. Ausable’s ability to think quickly and calmly in a situation of panic makes it convincing.
3. Looking back at the story, when do you think Ausable thought up his plan for getting rid of Max? Do you think he had worked out his plan in detail right from the beginning? Or did he make up a plan taking advantage of events as they happened?
Ausable thought of the plan for getting rid of Max quickly at the time he was conversing with him. As he was conversing with Max ideas flashed in his mind.
Ausable was a secret agent in an organization. He was alert and resourceful. He was a cool-headed person and had a lot of presence of mind. He was an American and could also speak German and French. Ausable knew that Max was scared and he used his ignorance and foolishness in his own favour. He framed the story of the balcony to convince Max about the balcony which was actually non-existent. It helped Ausable to get out of a dangerous and critical situation.
4. How has Max got in? How does Ausable say he got in?
Max has got into the room through a passkey. Ausable said that he thought Max had got into the room through the balcony. He said that it was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room this way.
5. Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
Fowler was a writer. He came to meet Ausable who is a detective. His first authentic thrill of the day was meeting Max in Ausable’s room with pistol in the hand pointing at Ausable and Fowler.
6. Why was Fowler disappointed on seeing Ausable?
Fowler was disappointed on seeing Ausable who was unlike other secret agents. He was fat and sloppy with heavy American accent. He was not at all flashy or romantic like other agents.
7. How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
Ausable was a fat and a soft spoken person. He did not fit into the description of a secret agent. Secret agents in fiction are projected like ideal men, 'Tall, dark and handsome'. They are usually well built and keep beautiful women for company. They would always smoke pipe or cigar and do death defying stunts.
2. How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? Look back at his detailed description of it. What makes it a convincing story?
Ausable creates a detailed description of how his room was part of a bigger apartment and how the next room had a direct connection with a balcony. His statement that somebody else also broke into his room through that balcony earlier made it a convincing story. Ausable’s ability to think quickly and calmly in a situation of panic makes it convincing.
3. Looking back at the story, when do you think Ausable thought up his plan for getting rid of Max? Do you think he had worked out his plan in detail right from the beginning? Or did he make up a plan taking advantage of events as they happened?
Ausable thought of the plan for getting rid of Max quickly at the time he was conversing with him. As he was conversing with Max ideas flashed in his mind.
Ausable was a secret agent in an organization. He was alert and resourceful. He was a cool-headed person and had a lot of presence of mind. He was an American and could also speak German and French. Ausable knew that Max was scared and he used his ignorance and foolishness in his own favour. He framed the story of the balcony to convince Max about the balcony which was actually non-existent. It helped Ausable to get out of a dangerous and critical situation.
4. How has Max got in? How does Ausable say he got in?
Max has got into the room through a passkey. Ausable said that he thought Max had got into the room through the balcony. He said that it was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room this way.
5. Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
Fowler was a writer. He came to meet Ausable who is a detective. His first authentic thrill of the day was meeting Max in Ausable’s room with pistol in the hand pointing at Ausable and Fowler.
6. Why was Fowler disappointed on seeing Ausable?
Fowler was disappointed on seeing Ausable who was unlike other secret agents. He was fat and sloppy with heavy American accent. He was not at all flashy or romantic like other agents.
7. How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
Ausable is different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He has a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth and top floor and it was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. He was extremely fat. In spite of living in Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French and German with difficulty and had an American accent. Instead of getting messages passed secretly to him by beautiful girls, he got only a routine telephone call making an appointment. In these ways, he was different from the conventional notion of a secret agent.
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