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  "You are an exception. Frenchmen usually have to consult about ten people before they get a move on. Listen! Do you or don't you want to sell this house?" (a) Identify the speaker and the listener. (b) Why is the listener being called an exception? (c) What opinion does the speaker seem to have about the French? or (a) Who is 'You' referred to in the above lines? (b) What is the opinion of the speaker about Frenchmen? (c) Why is the listener, an exception?

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                  (a) Gaston is the speaker of the given line and Mrs Al Smith is the listener. (b) Mrs Al Smith is ridiculing the French whereas Gaston is denying her claims. (c) Parodies are an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect here it means copying the lifestyle. or (a) Gaston is the speaker of the given lines. (b) It means that Americans and Europeans have different mindsets. (c) Gaston fools Mrs Al Smith by selling her the villa which didn't even belong to him.