TOBERMORY is a short story written by Hector Hugh Munro, best known by his pseudonym Saki. It is included in one of his four short story collections called "The Chronicles of Clovis-. Tobermory is a cat whose most peculiar characteristic is that he not only can listen to private conversations without being noticed, but also retell them whenever thought "appropriate-, since he's got the gift of talking. It's a talking cat who personifies typical characteristics humans tend to attribute to felines: haughtiness, indifference, and superiority.
ENGLISH CULTURE/IDIOSYNCRASY REFLECTED IN THE STORY.
In Tobermory, as in many of his stories, Saki clearly depicts the aristocratic England of .
Edward s times, making use of a high witted, ironic, and humorous language that helps us understand his critical point of view towards high-class people. He mocks society with a particular mischievous style and a subtle annoyance and dislike for aristocracy can be sensed in the stories.
The tendency to judge from appearances is highlighted by the fact that the same truth spoken by two differently assumed persons is taken as valid or improbable according to who's telling it. (Appin/Mr Wilfrid's statement of the cat's capacity to talk). This superficial deem can be seen also in the group's almost unconscious denial of Mr Appin's "too much of a bluff- name.
Hypocrisy is fairly punished through Tobermory's remarks. * There's a constant effort to be liked by everyone and to appear to be more than they really are. (Everything arranged to seem perfect, to be "the perfect host-). .
The feeling of superiority is shown not only by their discomfort in having to talk with an animal in equal terms; but also among them, assuming that a "feeble mind-, or a "not in the least good-looking man- are not at their same level.
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TREATMENT OF IRONY.
Saki uses his verbal wit to satirize typological characters and it is through special characters like Clovis that he makes himself the actual voice behind the words pronounced by these imaginative persons.
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