Read the following paragraph and answer the questions given below.
“I want my photograph taken, ” I said. The photographer looked at me without enthusiasm. He was a drooping man in a gray suit, with the dim eye of a natural scientist. But there is no need, to describe him. Everybody knows what a photographer is like. “Sit there, ” he said, “and wait.”
I waited an hour. I read the Ladies Companion for 1912, the Girls Magazine for 1902 and the Infants Journal for 1888. I began to see that I had done an unwarrantable thing in breaking in on the privacy of this man’s scientific pursuits with a face like mine. After an hour the photographer opened the inner door. Come in, ” he said severely.
I went into the studio.
“Sit down, ” said the photographer.
(a) Who wanted to have his photograph taken?
(b) What was the reaction of the photographer when the speaker disclosed his intention of visiting the studio?
(c) How long did the author wait?
(d) What did the author realized while waiting at the studio?
(e) Why did the photographer make people wait for a long time before taking a photograph?
