“Mr Know-All” The text under interpretation is the story “Mr Know-All” by Somerset Maugham. Somerset Maugham is a well-known English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist. His style of writing is clear and precise. In his works such as “Of Human Bondage”, “The Moon and Sixpence”, “The Happy Man”, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” Maugham doesn’t impose his views on the reader. He just puts a question and leaves it to reader to answer it. The plot of the story “Mr Know-All” develops around Max Kelada who voyaged from San-Francisco to Yokohama. During this voyage he annoyed all the passengers of the ocean-going liner and as the result he got a nickname “Mr Know-All”. The main idea of the text can be formulated as “appearances are often deceptive”. In the story the author raises the problem of stereotypes and racial prejudices. There are four main characters: Mr Know-All Max Kelada; the narrator, Mr Kelada’s fellow passenger and a typical snobbish Englishman; Mr Ramsay, a typ...
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