Fritz

by

Satyajit Ray

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Fritz Quotes

He had always wanted to return after growing up, just to see how much the modern Bundi compared to the image he had in his mind.

Related Characters: Shankar (speaker), Jayanto
Page Number: 189
Explanation and Analysis:

“You know, Shankar, it is really quite strange. The first time I came here I used to sit cross-legged on these chairs. It seemed as though I was sitting on a throne. Now the chairs seem both small in size and very ordinary. The drawing-room here used to seem absolutely enormous. If I hadn’t returned, those memories would have remained stuck in my mind.”

Related Characters: Jayanto (speaker), Shankar
Page Number: 190
Explanation and Analysis:

“But why did you suddenly think of a tree?”

[…] “I can’t remember that now. Something had brought me near the tree. I had done something here. A European…”

“European?”

“No, I can’t recall anything at all. Memory is a strange business…”

Related Characters: Shankar (speaker), Jayanto (speaker)
Page Number: 191
Explanation and Analysis:

It was not the usual kind of doll little girls play with. One of Jayanto’s uncles had brought for him from Switzerland a twelve-inch-long figure of an old man, dressed in traditional Swiss attire. Apparently, it was very lifelike.

Related Characters: Shankar (speaker), Jayanto
Related Symbols: Fritz
Page Number: 191
Explanation and Analysis:

“But once I had Fritz, I forgot all my other toys. I played only with him. A time came when I began to spend hours just talking to him. Our conversation had to be one-sided, of course, but Fritz had such a funny smile on his lips and such a look in his eyes, that it seemed to me as though he could understand every word. Sometimes I wondered if he would actually converse with me if I could speak to him in German. Now it seems like a childish fantasy, but at the time the whole thing was very real to me.”

Related Characters: Jayanto (speaker)
Related Symbols: Fritz
Page Number: 192
Explanation and Analysis:

“In other words, Fritz did not exist for me anymore. He was dead. […] I buried him under that deodar tree. I had wanted to make a coffin. Fritz was, after all, a European. But I could find nothing, not even a little box. So, in the end, I buried him just like that.”

Related Characters: Jayanto (speaker)
Related Symbols: Fritz
Page Number: 193
Explanation and Analysis:

I had no doubt that Jayanto had only had a bad dream. All those childhood memories had upset him, obviously, and that was what had led to his dreaming of a cat walking on his chest.

Related Characters: Shankar (speaker), Jayanto
Page Number: 195
Explanation and Analysis:

“Fritz came into our room last night. Those little marks on my quilt were his footprints.”

There was very little I could do at this except catch hold of him by the shoulders and shake him. How could I talk sensibly to someone whose mind was obsessed with such an absurd idea?

Related Characters: Shankar (speaker), Jayanto (speaker)
Related Symbols: Fritz
Page Number: 197
Explanation and Analysis:

If Jayanto could actually be shown that that was all that was left of his precious doll, he might be able to rid himself of his weird notions; otherwise he would have strange dreams every night and talk of Fritz walking on his chest.

Related Characters: Shankar (speaker), Jayanto
Related Symbols: Fritz
Page Number: 197
Explanation and Analysis:

The spade slipped from the gardener’s hand. I, too, gaped at the ground, open-mouthed in horror, amazement and disbelief.

There lay at our feet, covered in dust, lying flat on its back, a twelve-inch-long, pure white, perfect little human skeleton.

Related Characters: Shankar (speaker), Jayanto
Related Symbols: Fritz
Page Number: 199
Explanation and Analysis:
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