.

2. The fisherman reached home and called his wife in
excitement. ‘See, who's there in it!’ He showed her the
mirror. She looked eagerly into it. She saw the face of a
woman in it. ‘Oh, my mother! She looks so young!’ She
was thrilled. ‘Where did you get this thing from?’
‘Mother! Whose mother?’ The fisherman turned the
mirror towards his face.
‘It's my father.’ She grabbed the mirror from him and
looked into it again. ‘Are you joking ? It’s my mother!’
she cried out. The man was annoyed and snatched the
mirror from her hands. He looked at it again to assure
himself that it was his father. ‘There’s something wrong
with you. You’re going crazy. I’ll never show you this
again,’ he said. His wife tried to grab the mirror from
him. The fisherman held on to it. They started battling

3. ‘Oh, my mother! She looks so young!’ Why did ‘the
mother’ look young?
The wife of fisherman was young.
When she looked into the mirror,
she saw the image of her won face
into the mirror. She had never seen
her own face before. So she thought
it was her mother’s face and she looked
young.

4. What was the reason for the fight between the
fisherman and his wife?
The fisherman said that the
face seen in the mirror was
his father’s. But his wife didn’t
agree with it. She said it was
her mother’s face. This was the
reason for their fight.

5. What do you think the fisherman and his wife did when
the mirror was broken into pieces?
They stopped fighting.
They realized that the faces
seen in the mirror were the
images of their own faces.