The Merchant impresses the other pilgrims by all the status symbols of the rich and powerful rising middle class. He is excellently dressed and talks in a very serious manner. He is so shrewd in his business that nobody knows that he is deeply in debt. The narrator regrets the fact that he does not know the merchant's name.

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