The short story "B. Wordsworth" explores an unusual friendship between an old man and a boy with critical appreciation. Discuss.

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Solution:

Sony was a boy with a family, but he was uncharacteristically open to learn new things. B. Wordsworth provided him with a companion whom he could relate to with ease and confidence. Sony must have been in his early teens, and his companion, B. Wordsworth at least two decades older. The two developed affinity towards each other from day one. Sony’s mother perhaps hastened the process by her merciless beating of her process.

Wordsworth Sony became bosom friends. For the senior companion, it was a bond with deep cordiality. The way Sony empathized with him provided him solace and succor from his life that was a big void, and a colossal failure. In Sony, he found someone who would listen to his poems, share with him the pleasure of aimless sauntering in the island, and the simple pleasures of eating ice cream. Sony never mocked him for his failures, never questioned him why and how he had landed up so miserably in his life.

In a nutshell, B. Wordsworth depicts, with remarkable sensitivity, the friendship between a grown up person and the gullible young boy, Sony.