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"It was like the butcher's knife going to the stone to sharpen itself. The story, "The Tribute" contains a number of reference to the work of a butcher. Why does Babuli so often had these thoughts

the wife is being referred as the butcher....coz she is insensitive towards babuli's feelings and his attachment towards his mother and his elder brother.....and babuli is bacisally in a fix...he doesnt know whom to turn to.....n he feels as helpless as lamb wud feel when in captive of a butcher

well a butcher is someone who kills a innocent being for his own needs.i think here it means the circumstances mized with his guilt thats instigating such thoughts in babuli.it can also be refering to his fmily members who are the coz for the parition,and also his childhood connection with his home.i guess this explains it!!

But my teacher said that it refers to time????

time?
oh come on pooja is right
it refers to babuli's wife as buture and babuli as lamb
y pooja has olready said it

Actually it's that his wife was behaving & speaking as a butcher is cutting a lamb because through her thoughts Babuli's heart was getting prepared to be cut by her knife of thoughts.

ACCORDING TO ME THE BUTCHER HAS BEEN USED FOR ITS NATURAL MEANING ONLY.ITS JUST THAT EVERYTIME IT CONCLUDES A DIFFERENT MEANING.THE LINE WHICH U QUOTED MEANS HE WAS FEELING LIKE HE WAS BEING CUTTED DOWN BY THAT KNIFE HE WAS SO SHATTERED AFTER LISTENING HIS WIFE['S VIEW.HE FELT THAT BUTCHER WAS SHARPENING HIS KNIFE TO CUT HIN IN PIECES SO THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE TO FACE ANYONES COMMENT OR WISHES