Mother had refused to take Premila to school because she believes that education was not crucial to everything, and because of this, she thinks it was easier to make a British from home. The degrees and other examination were not valued in any way during the days.
Therefore the excert portraying a depressed mood because Premila was not able to get the education because she did not manage to complete the question she was given in school and this gave her negative attitude, but she did not give up at any time.
In "The Notorious Jumping From of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain, the shortcomings that the narrator and Jim Smiley share was they were being greedy. Jim Smiley is the main character and showed his greed for money but got in trouble.
