• Explanation, summary with Questions and Answers for the Short Story included in the CHSE +2 Alternative English book ‘Approaches to English – II’.
  • There was something very striking in the short, sharp sentences he used. ... III Questions on the text: 1) Who visited the author of the story once?
  • The man in his rags with a long, shabby beard and the torn clothes was happy except at the times when police harassed him.
  • The following is excerpted from the short story, "The Happy Man," by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • Then one of the servants came back into the room and made a bow, “Oh, my Chief,” he said, “but I think I can tell you something that will make you very happy.”
  • A MAN and a dog trudged along a country road. On either side, beyond gray stone walls, meadows stretched gently upward to meet a warm blue sky.
  • There was something very striking in the short, sharp sentences he used.
  • Taken from his Collected Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the first person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises...
  • Click Here to Read or Print The Happy Man. ... Short Films Picked by 2021-22 Class.