“Why don’t you look out of the window?”- Who said these words to whom? Why? Describe the action of the listener.
The girl said these words to the narrator. The girl said these words to the narrator because he asked her to tell him how the outer world looked from the window of the train compartment. When the girl asked the narrator to look outside the window himself, he moved along the berth and felt for the window ledge. Facing the open window, the narrator made a pretence of studying the landscape. He heard the panting of the engine and the rumble of the wheels. In his mind’s eye, he saw telegraph posts flashing by.
“Do you see any animals?” -Who asked this and to whom? What was the reply? How could the person give the answer?
The girl who boarded the train at Rohana asked this question to the narrator of the short story The Eyes Have It’.
In reply to this question asked by the girl, the narrator said no because he was pretty sure that there were hardly any animals left in the forests near Dehra.
The narrator wanted to hide the fact that he was blind. So, when asked by the girl whether he could see any animals outside, the narrator pretended to be looking out of the window before answering the girl’s question. The narrator was very familiar with the surrounding areas of Dehra, so he replied confidently that he could not see any animals outside.
