Describe briefly how a man had taken part in the bid of a painting

Describe briefly how a man had taken part in the bid of a painting thoughtlessly? Explain it.

It is true that the virtue of rectitude has great rewards for a man of patience. Discuss it in your own words in the light of this essay, ‘Tight Corners’ written by E. V. Lucas.

How did the writer fail to collect money from his friends, relatives and money-lenders? Describe it briefly in your own words.

The writer was lucky to get divine mercy and help to become free from the tight corner. Discuss it.

The writer suffered from the evil of too much greed when a man suggested to exchange that painting at a higher price than its real cost. Discuss it.

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The writer in a tight corner

When a man is put in a very difficult situation without knowing how he should come out of it without any harm, it is said about him that he had fallen into a tight corner. The writer, in his essay describes how a particular man had fallen into a very awkward, or very complex situation because of his initial blunder as well as by his wrong decision. The writer makes it clear that a man who falls in a tight corner comes face to face with some definite physical fear of a lot of mental tension. In this respect, it should be noted that tight corners become tighter when they are related only to the mental tension, mental torture. Under such situation such a man also faces emotional torture related to his mental agony which is far more painful than that of physical fear, or any such problem.

A man had entered the sale-room of auction

After reading this essay ‘Tight Corners’ we note that a man had been persuaded by his friend to enter the sale-room of auction when he had no money with him. For sometime, he continued watching by standing there where he saw that picture after picture was being sold and bought by the process of fast auction. Though bidding had started from a low level of prices but it rose higher and higher when more bidders had come forward offering higher prices. That man continued watching this interesting game for sometime but on the rash moment of the game, he also decided to take part in the bidding. He did not realize that he had no money in his pocket. He thought of playing a game as the part of fun. He had thought that he would leave the game in the middle after enjoying the interesting sale-game.

It is necessary to mention that unfortunately he was caught in a very tight situation just after he had entered the bid. The bid for a painting had started with four thousand guineas and he added fifty from his own side thinking that other bidders would increase the bidding amount and then he would give it up. It was his wrong decision because the game did not turn to the side in which he had expected. None came forward to increase the amount of bid, so he was caught in a tight corner unawares. Then he fell into a miserable condition because he had no money with him to make the payment of that painting. He was to be called soon to pay 4,050 guineas which he had not. Once he thought of explaining his embarrassing situation of poverty but he could not gather enough courage to do so.

He failed to borrow the needed amount of money

The study of this essay clearly shows that he had failed to arrange money from any quarter when he was in a tight corner. First of all he turned to his friend who had persuaded him to enter that sale-room of auction but he had disappeared from there to avoid his friend’s demand for money. After that he requested his uncles and friends to borrow money from them but they also refused to help him in the hour of his need. After that he remembered some money lenders who had promised to lend him money on the basis of promissory notes but they also refused flatly to fulfil his demand. At last he wished that some firing party should come and disturb the auction sale and then he would be saved from making the necessary payment of the painting.

The divine help for him

It is a common conception that help for a needy person comes from the divine side when all other means fail. It is said that if a good, or honest man is in some distress. help comes for him from divine quarters. The same thing happened in the case of this man. That man who had committed a blunder of entering the auction sale was repenting much. Suddenly God sent help for him. A messenger came to him making a very good offer of making a payment of extra fifty guineas so that his friend could buy that painting by making the payment of 4,100 guineas to him. In that way that man could come out of the tight corner. It was an example of his good luck.

That man became the prey of greed

It is necessary to mention that that man had become the prey of greed which is regarded as the green-eyed monster to defile the good nature of that man. He did not feel satisfied with the extra amount of fifty guineas which was a blessing in disguise for him, so he craved for more money. In short, he wanted to kill two birds with one stone.

It was his clever trick that he kept quiet for a short time before opening his mouth to that messenger of God to demand one hundred extra guineas in place of fifty guineas in order to transfer his claim for that painting to another man. The man who wanted to have that painting agreed to make the payment of extra one hundred guineas to him. The writer shows it clearly that most of us suffer from such evil of greed against all principles of goodness and honesty. When God is ready to help the good and honest man, he falls under the temptation of greed and the same idea is expressed by the writer in his essay ‘Tight Corners’.