With the photographer - Summary

With the photographer  by Stephen Leacock 

Summary of the lesson

Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher and writer. He completed his education at Upper Canada College in Toronto. His famous works include Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Arcadian Adventures, With the Idle Rich, Economic Prosperity in the British Empire, etc. In this short story, Stephen Leacock shares his experience with a photographer. One day Stephen Leacock visits a studio to have his photograph taken. The photographer asks him to sit and wait. Stephen waits for an hour. In the meantime, the narrator reads the Ladies Companion, the Girls Magazine, and the Infants Journal. After an hour the photographer called Leacock to the inner room. The photographer studies the narrator's face. He criticizes Leacock's face. He twisted Leacock's face. He gives instructions like open the mouth, roll his eyes, etc. These instructions annoyed him and made anger. He outbursted with anger and said that he had been living with the same face for forty years. When he was about to get up, the photographer clicked his image. Leacock went sunday to collect his photograph. The photographer had made some changes to the narrators eyes, eyebrows to look him handsome. It made disappointed Stephen Leacock. Leacock wanted to leave his photograph as a memory to his family members and friends after his death. But the photograph was so unnatural. It was simply waste.