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What is Vera's perspective in "The Open Window"? What is Vera's perception of Framton? How might Vera describe Framton to some of her friends?

In Saki's "The Open Window," Vera plays a practical joke on a stranger named Framton Nuttel. First, Vera would probably tell her friends that a timid and nervous man entered her home and she couldn't resist playing the joke on him. After discovering that Mr. Nuttel didn't know anyone from around those parts, she would boast about how easy it was to draw him into the tragic story of her uncles' apparent disappearance in a...

In Saki's "The Open Window," Vera plays a practical joke on a stranger named Framton Nuttel. First, Vera would probably tell her friends that a timid and nervous man entered her home and she couldn't resist playing the joke on him. After discovering that Mr. Nuttel didn't know anyone from around those parts, she would boast about how easy it was to draw him into the tragic story of her uncles' apparent disappearance in a bog three years earlier. Vera would probably recount to her friends just how perfectly she set the gloomy scene for Nuttel just before he told her aunt of his fragile state of health. Then, when everyone heard Uncle Ronnie singing, which was a definite sign of the men's return from hunting, or from the dead, Vera would brag to her friends about her dramatic performance to make the man believe that she thought she was seeing ghosts.



"The child was staring out through the open window with dazed horror in her eyes. In a chill shock of nameless fear Framton swung round in his seat and looked in the same direction."



With Vera's perfect storytelling skills and reaction to the men coming home, she would tell her friends how Framton was so scared that he grabbed his stick and hat as quickly as he could, then ran from the house without another word. Vera would also laugh with her friends about her aunt saying the following:



"A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttel . . . could only talk about his illnesses and dashed off without a word of goodbye or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost."



Vera would tell her friends how very pleased she had been when her aunt correctly analyzed the situation without knowing about her little game. 

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