Can you provide a character analysis of the bachelor in "The Storyteller" written by Saki(H.H.Munro)?

In their narratives, authors use various methods of
characterization:  through a physical
description

1. through a physical description of
   the character


2. through the character's
   actions


3. through the character's thoughts, feeling, and
   speeches


4. through the comments and reactions of other
   characters


5. through direct statements giving the writer's
   opinion of the character.

The first four
methods are called indirect methods of characterization while the last method is direct
characterization since with it the author tells rather than
dramatizes.

In his witty short story, "The Storyteller,"
Saki presents his character, the bacelor, mainly through his speech and comments and
reactions toward other characters with some characterization through the reactions of
the aunt.

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With
his own inimitable wit and psychological insight, Saki presents the reader with what
seems a confirmed bachelor who is uncomfortably confined to a compartment on a train
with an indulgent and ineffective aunt and three unruly children, who "are converstional
in a limited, persistent way."  They also move around the compartment; the boy pounds
the cushion right next to the bachelor. As it becomes apparent that the bachelor is very
irritated by this intrusion upon his polite distance when he glares at her twice after
looking at Cyril who seems bent upon reciting a line two thousand times, the aunt
summons the children to her and attempts to pacify them with a story about a good little
girl.

Interrupted by petulant questions from one girl, the
aunt essays to entertain the children unsuccessfully.  Disgruntled, the bachelor
abruptly from his corner tells her,

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"You don't seem to be a success as a
story-teller."

In defence,
the aunt challenges him to relate a story himself. With ironic wit, the bachelor does
this, changing the story about the little girl to one about Bertha, who has three medals
for her goodness which she constantly wears so everyone will know how "horribly good"
she is.  This paradoxical phrase intrigues the children who listen eagerly to the
bachelor's unorthodox tale of Bertha's being invited to the Prince's park which is
inhabited by pigs. Instead of the "happily ever after" ending, the satirical bachelor
tells the children of a wolf who pursues Bertha, who is able to successfully hide from
it until her good conduct medals clink together, betraying her to the wolf and she is
eaten. At this ending, the aunt's initial admiration turns to disapproval, "A most
improper story," she chides him.  However, the bachelor congratulations himself for his
victory over this woman,

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Unhappy woman!" he observed to himself as he
walked down the platform of Templecombe station; "for the next six months or so those
children will assail her in public with demands for an improper
story!"

No meek and retiring
bachelor, Saki's character has pulled out his sardonic verbal skills and ironic wit to
battle the irritations of the children and their ineffective aunt who have disturbed his
comfort on the train.