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In the short story, 'With the Photographer', the narrator asks the photographer, "Is it me?" because ________.
Topic: The narrator and his photograph
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(c) He is unable to recognise his own face.
The photographer has retouched the face out of existence — the eyebrows removed, the mouth altered, the ears adjusted, the hair changed. The question "Is it me?" is genuine bewilderment, and it triggers the narrator’s final outburst that the face, imperfect as it was, was his own. Leacock’s humour carries a real point about identity, which is what the longer questions on this story ask you to discuss.
He is unable to recognise his own face.
He is unable to recognise his own face.