"A Real Durwan"

"Mr. Dalal had decided to install one basin in the sitting room of their flat and the other one on the stairwell of the building, on the first floor landing. "This way everyone can use it," he explained from door to door. the residents were delighted: for years they had all brushed their teeth with stored water poured from mugs....Among the wives however, resentment quickly brewed. Standing in line to brush their teeth in the mornings, each grew frustrated with having to wait their turn." This passage shows how people can become spoiled and instead of appreciating something that was given to them as a gift by the Dalal's they can only focus on what they don't have. The author shows the reader the change in attitude about the basin by creating different tones. When the resident first hear of the basins the reader knows they are excited and pleased through the authors choice of words such as "delighted," this along with comparing the basin to the worse process of brushing there teeth with stored mug water creates a tone of happiness." Then the tone changes after the residents had used the basins for a while. The author chooses words like "resentment," and "frustrated," to describe there new feelings toward the sink which creates an impatient tone. This switch in emotion from excitement to impatience displays that human nature that nothing is ever good enough we are always greedy for more.