Chapter 7: Glory at Twilight

The story describes the truth clearly – how it is very difficult for a person to get adjusted to the truth and accept his defeat after living his life as an achiever. After reaching extreme heights of success, failing all of a sudden would make it difficult for a person to accept it. Every person in the neighbourhood was aware of his success story. Hence, it is difficult to cope with failure and let people know about the tragedy.

The concept that people achieving success faster will also fail very fast holds true, according to this story. The speed of failure is faster than the speed of success. At one point, we strive hard to attain success, while it takes just seconds for failure to reach us. It is a matter of luck that a man achieves success while his failure is caused by his own actions. When success is planned accordingly and achieved by hard work, it stays for a long time. When failure hits, it is abrupt and never lets us know before coming. Hence, it can be said that the tempo of failure is faster than success.

Predicament means an unpleasant, perplexing, difficult or dangerous situation. In this story, Satyajit is stuck between the loss of his wealth and his uncle’s expectation to lend him money to get his other daughters married. He was not able to tell about his present situation due to his pride and ego, mainly after being considered a benefactor to his uncle. He was selfish and did not want to leave his Godly status he enjoyed at his uncle’s house. Revelation lightens one’s mood and unburdens one’s heart. Hence, it would have been easy for Satyajit to be honest and true about his actual state and let go of his pride.

At the beginning of the story, the author believes in the fact that he got what he was supposed to have. He found it correct to be promoted to the post of Managing Director though he did not deserve it. When the fortune turned away, he understood that he did not like the person because of whom he got his promotion. He did not like the forgerer due to whom he achieved lots of fame and glory. So now he just wants the hands of the clock to turn back so that he can forget about the person who committed the crime. He had disrespect in his heart for the person who did this crime as he was the main reason for his success, due to which he had to suffer. This was a revelation point when he got to know that time and tide wait for no one and hence, it was late to give him a chance to live.