Short Story of Roald Dahl

A Connoisseurs Revenge Plot/ commentary This is one and only(a) of my favorite Dahl stories, and the one with (I think) the most potent roll in the tail of all. Its not until the very last sentence that you watch the true story. Spoiler warning Lionel Lampson is a monied older adult male who enjoys fine art and the company of the upper classes. One night he escorts a vulgar woman named Gladys Ponsonby home from a dinner party. Gladys, who is a little drunk, shows off a new portrait of herself that she had commissioned.She tells Lionel a cloistered the artist, John Royden, paints all his subjects first in the nude, and so in their underwear, and at long last in their clothes. He is shocked and correctly deduces that this is why all the wealthy women in town are rushing to engender their portraits painted by him. Gladys then changes the subject and asks Lionel about his relationship with a young looker named Janet de Pelagia. Lionel is embarrassed until Gladys relates that e arlier that afternoon Janet had called him a crashing bore.Lionel is outraged and forces Gladys to recite the entire conversation. He is so upset to hear what Janet thinks about him that he swoons. The next day he wakes and vows revenge. He hits upon the perfect plan and calls up this artist Royden. He tells him that hed like a picture of Janet, but doesnt pauperization her to know about it. He pays Royden a handsome amount for his services, and then goes off to Italy for four months. By the time Lionel returns, Royden has finished the painting and its the express of the Royal Academy.Royden delivers it to Lionel, who cant wait to move on to the second part of his plan. He is an expert clearner and restorer of paintings, and very carefully he begins to remove the put across layer (the clothing) of the painting. By the time he has finished, Janet de Pelagia is standing before him intimately life-size in nothing but her underclothes. Lionel then invites Janet and all the precede members of society to his home for a dinner party. He keeps the dining d well up dark and they eat by candlelight. At the very end, he has the maidservant turn on the light.As he slips from the room, he has the pleasure of perceive on Janets face the surprised, not-quite-understanding look of a person who precisely one second before has been shot dead, right through the heart. As the outraged guests begin to exclaim over the painting, Lionel presss into his car and speeds off to his different house. Two days later, he receives a phone call from Gladys Ponsonby that kills his goodly mood. She tells him that all his old friends are against him and have sworn never to cover to him again.Lionel begins to feel quite bad. Then, in the post arrives a letter from Janet forgive him and saying that she knew it was a joke and that shes always loved him. She also sends him a jar of his favorite food, caviare. As the story ends, Lionel mentions that he might have eaten too much of it, a s he isnt feeling too well right now. In fact, he says, come to think of it, I sincerely do feel rather ill all of a sudden. (If you dont get it, she sent him poisoned caviare as her revenge