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How is Ausable different from other secret agents?

Ausable does not fit into any description of a secret agent. He is very fat and looks like a very simple man who lives in a small room on the sixth and top floor. During the time, the author spends with Ausable in the hall there was no such event which could support his being a secret agent.


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"Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read." What do secret agents in books and films look like, in your opinion? Discuss in groups or in class some stories or movies featuring spies, detectives and secret agents, and compare their appearance with that of Ausable in this story. (You may mention characters from fiction in languages other than English. In English fiction you may have come across Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Miss Marple. Have you watched any movies featuring James Bond?)