Beschrijving
Late Satisfaction. A man applies for a job as a hotel porter (sexton, ticket-seller for a movie theater), but he is not hired because he cannot read or write. He emigrates and, through a series of lucky circumstances, becomes wealthy. When he goes back home to visit, he stays at a hotel where he is asked to fill out a form, and it becomes obvious that he is illiterate. The porter remarks, “Whatever could you have done if you had been able to read?” The man answers, “I would have been a porter in this hotel.”
Motief
X611
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1659
Subgenre
mop