Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
For the first week, I was annoyed every time I passed that ‘Villa for Sale’ sign. The neighbours seemed to look at me in such a strange kind of way that I began to think the whole thing was going to be much more of a sell than a sale.
(a) Why was the speaker annoyed?
(b) How did the whole thing become a ‘sell’ than a sale?
(c) Name the speaker and the play from which these lines have been taken.
(a) The speaker was impatient to dispose of her villa and had put up a ‘Villa for sale’ sign for this purpose. She was annoyed as she couldn’t get a suitable buyer for the villa even waiting for a long time.
(b) Juliette had waited for a long time but couldn’t find a suitable buyer for her villa. The whole thing became quite distressing and disappointing rather than a sale.
(c) Juliette, the owner of the villa is the speaker and these lines have been taken from Sacha Guitry’s play ‘Villa for Sale’.