What is this world for ?' has ever since been a question that has perplexed even the greatest of thinkers and philosophers. The peddler used to sell rattraps and he equated this world to a rattrap for the people. The whole world around him offers riches and joys, shelter and food, and clothing exactly as the rattrap offers cheese and pork. The allurements that this world offers to us tempt us and we get entangled. The peddler suggests that we cannot but fall prey to this snare and that this is our fate. The metaphor discussed above definitely highlights human predicament i.e. we cannot but be what we are.