Twenty Minutes with Mrs Oakentubb
Twenty Minutes with Mrs Oakentubb Q1. Explain the importance of the label on Mrs. Oakentubb’s suitcase. Why does she hide it? Ans. In the melodrama ‘Twenty Minutes with Mrs. Oakentubb’, the male character, whose name remains unknown throughout, enters the railway waiting room and glances at the tie-on label attached to the suitcase of a lady who was already sitting there. She is Mrs. Judy Oakentubb, the very lady he is going to see in Stainthorpe. Mrs. Oakentubb killed this man’s wife and daughter in a car accident and he wants to avenge their “murder”. If the man had not seen the label, he would have remained oblivion of her identity and the murder would not have taken place. The development of the plot would have taken different lines. Realizing the malicious intention of the man, she deems it appropriate to hide the label so that the man might not know who she is. In addition, if she had escaped, she might have taken protective measur...