Book: THE MILLION POUND BANK NOTE

by Mark Twain

Throughout the story, as the narrator gains more and more respect, imminent doom constantly lurks in the background. Cite an example of this from the story, and explain its effect.

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He was having dept around, going into shop buying luzery things and telling them to split the money which they couldn't.

Everybody had been trying to lend me money, but I had fought off the most of them on one pretext or another; so this indebtedness represented only £300 borrowed money, the other £300 represented my keep and my purchases. I believed my second year's salary would carry me through the rest of the month if I went on being cautious and economical, and I intended to look sharply out for that. My month ended, my employer back from his journey, I should be all right once more, for I should at once divide the two years' salary among my creditors by assignment, and get right down to my work.

had money to spend, and was living like the rich and the great. I judged that there was going to be a crash by and by, but I was in now and must swim across or drown. You see there was just that element of impending disaster to give a serious side, a sober side, yes, a tragic side, to a state of things which would otherwise have been purely ridiculous. In the night, in the dark, the tragedy part was always to the front, and always warning, always threatening; and so I moaned and tossed, and sleep was hard to find. But in the cheerful daylight the tragedy element faded out and disappeared, and I walked on air, and was happy to giddiness, to intoxication, you may

Explanation:

this short story wasn't as immediately popular as 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' and it didn't feature the same kind of flair for capturing regional life in the United States. Instead, he places an American abroad in a situation where money is both an object and a prize, and the characters must prove their worth beyond material possessions.