CHARACTER SKETCH OF MARCO from THE GUIDE by R.K. Narayan
Character Sketch of Marco √ For a beautiful answer,always start your introduction with a quotation. INTRODUCTION - "He was capable of cold, machine like rectitude;" The husband of Rosie, Marco is a serious, studious, reticent scholar of ancient civilizations whose only passion is for his work. His research into the sites of ancient civilization has turned him into an eternal tourist, as evidenced by the traveler’s clothes that he always wears. Arriving in the town of Malgudi on the railway one day to examine cave paintings, Marco hires Raju to show him the sights. HIS NAME - Marco is not the real name of the scholarly husband of Rosie. The research scholar with his Eurocentric culture has been satirized. To Raju, he appears to be a space traveler or an astronaut. Marco is a shortened version of Marco Polo who is an archeologist. One can feel pity towards that character ‘Marco’ because it was the name given by Raju at the railway station. “I have, of course, n...
