The narrator in “The Sampler” is who the story is about. The first-person narrator also functions as an observer and shares what he sees with the readers. The narrator is limited to what the shop girl shares with him and what he is seeing in the store. He also knows only about the old man's existence when the shopkeeper tells him about the old man who usually comes almost every week and tastes the puddings. One can easily make assumptions about the old man's past. When he is called a "gentleman", therefore, readers can assume that he was once in a good posture in life. There may be some reasons why he is here in this store.
The short story was published in 1933, so we can assume that the events take place around the release date. You can see that the events take place in no less than a few minutes from the moment the narrator enters the store and talks to the shopkeeper to the moment when the old man decides to buy the expensive pudding to save his glory.
The social environment affects the rich and the poor and also shows how one's positive intentions can sometimes be interpreted. The narrator is a man with a financial situation, he can afford to buy from the store, while the old man can only afford to try the pudding varieties. The shop girl is assuming he is missing a good meal. The story proves to us that poverty and those with money do not have to go together, the poor man is a true warrior, he does not want to have the pudding for free but buys it. However, in an attempt to do a good deed, the narrator offers a pudding to the old man, but that was not what the old man had wished, it just shows that the narrator believes that the old man is poor.
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