The story also focuses on human loneliness and the need to bond with others.

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The story ‘The Rat Trap’ focuses on human loneliness and the need to bond with others. Explain.

Man is a social animal. His interaction with others makes him, generally, unwelcome by every one. When the peddler knocked on the door of the roadside cottage to ask shelter for the night, he was allowed with a welcoming face of the owner. He was an old man without wife and child. So he was happy to get someone to talk to in his loneliness.

At once, he prepared for him and served him super. After that he took out enough tobacco for his pipe and played “majolis.”

The old crofter informed his guest that in his days of prosperity he had been a crofter at the Ramsjo Ironworks. Now he was old and his cow supported him. He got thirty Kronor he received last month for cow's milk. He got up and took out the pouch and showed him the three wrinked ten Kronor notes moving them knowingly before his guest's eyes.

The story focuses also on the need to bond with others.

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