VERA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Russian, Czech, English, German
Other Scripts: ???? (Russian)
Pronounced: VEER-a, VER-a [key]
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Options: Contribute Information, Add to List Means "faith" in Russian, also influenced by the Latin word verus "true".
This is ironic because her name means truth yet she makes up a story to tell Frampton.
2. The last line of the story is ironic because she makes up the entire story. If her mom had answered the door, their would be no story to begin with.
3. Frampton Nuttel- This is ironic because he is crazy hence the name NUTtel.
Husband and Kids died in a marsh- This is ironic because a marsh is just a big mud pool filled with little plants.
4. The point of view in this story is in 3rd person. Vera tells Frampton the story and you understand the story through Frampton�s feelings. This creates irony because if we knew it in 1st person point of view we would have known that Vera was making up the whole story.
5. "My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the meantime you must try and put up with me."- That shows that Vera thinks very highly of herself and is a little egotistical.
Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were dimly noted stages in his headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid imminent collision. � This shows that Frampton is scared beyond all belief and is very cautious about himself by not even wanting to know who the people were who showed up at the house.