and sarcasm could have gained him advancement among his peers.A reader has to conclude that a work of this nature, from such a dynamic author, must be read with both some literary awe and criticism. One can spend many hours trying to analyze the words, the sentences and even entire paragraphs to find a deeper hidden meaning in this story. Yet, this story should be viewed as a fictional work and as one of the best demonstrations of dual sarcasm and irony combined. Anything beyond that would be purely hypothetical and would distract from the purity of this story....