Questation: Discuss Bennett's presentation of Dr. Austin Bond as a detective. (Nov.10) (Nov.08)
Anshwer: Bennett describes Dr. Austin Bond in antonyms in the same line he calls him 'an amateur detective' and 'a genius who has solved many complicated cases'. He calls his perspicacity (sharpness) devilish as it made the professional detectives look and feel foolish. In this case too though the readers know that he too is wrong, he proves the perceptions and judgments of the police completely wrong, as he guesses in a minute that the prints of three fingered hand, the blue threads and the imprint of the shoe with a hole in the sole, are of the charwoman and not some murderer. Dr. Bond's notorious friendship with the loftiest heads of Scotland Yard make the police forces treat him politely. Bennett uses Dr. Bond as satire on the police force and the professional detectives by showing an amateur detective, who is making wrong perception regarding the murder of Franting, to be the best of them.
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