The narrator, a book writer, recognizes a woman with whom he had lunch years ago. He suddenly remembers an incident involving this woman from a few years ago.She wrote to him about his books and she wanted to meet him for a luncheon. He was shocked at the time because she had picked a expensive restaurant and he onlyhad a few francs to survive for the month. She starts ordering expensive dish after another and she leaves him broke. He then gets his revenge by seeing that she now weighs a 140kg.The narration of the short story is first person. This is shown
Did I remember?","My heart sank", "as for myself, I chose the cheapest dish". This shows us his standpoint and we are moved to feel the same emotions or at least sympathize with the speaker on his situation of having a lunch with an old woman who eats him out of house and home.The short story is divided into three parts which are the exposition, the storyand the climax. The exposition being the start where he looks back in memory 20years in the past. The story being the luncheon and the climax being the womans increase in weight.There is a lot of irony in the luncheon as the woman repeatedly says she only eats one thing and it is only something small, but to the contrary she eats 5 dishes. The word luncheon also means to eat something small.The theme of the short story is appearance versus reality. It is first shown ashe thinks the woman is much older than he though and then how she says she only eats one thing. The other example is how she said that she is a fan but she is only after a free lunch.