CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ivan Dmitritch thought of her relations. All those wretched brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles would come crawling about as soon as they heard of the winning ticket, would begin whining like beggars, and fawning upon them with oily, hypocritical smiles. Wretched, detestable people!

Detailed explanation-2: -What does Ivan think of his relatives? They are annoying. They are wretched, detestable people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ivan had no faith in lottery luck, but now, as he had nothing else to do, he passed his finger down-wards along the column of numbers. And immediately his eye was caught by the figure 9, 499! “Masha, your number is there!” He said to his wife. His wife looked at his astonished face and realised that he was not joking.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ian started dreaming and suggested they would buy an estate. Masha also had her own day dreams about winning the lottery and expressed how she has always wished to go abroad. They both also laughed thinking how their relatives would ask for money if they win such a handsome amount.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ivan decided to shatter her dreams and so he immediately looked at the winning number and read the series 9499 number 46. They realized that they were not the winners. They were really disappointed and continued their work.