Rabindranath Tagore: Short Stories Lesson Plan

In False Hope, how does the narrator's willingness to dismiss the woman's story at the end mirror the woman's loss of faith when she finally finds Keshar Lal? What questions does Tagore seem to be raising about the nature of faith and spirituality?

The narrator reaches a meditative, altered consciousness state while listening to the nawab's daughter's story but the fragility of this state is apparent when the clouds on the mountain road clear. When a few passers by stare at him with amused glances, he is ready to dismiss the story as a creation of his imagination. Similarly, the nawab's daughter spends a lifetime diligently preparing to become a Brahmin. As she passes...