POST READING- MR KNOW ALL

"In the end, it turned out that the real pearl was Mr.Kelada."

Cultured pearls which  are created or made by people, are not natural or genuine as real pearls are. Cultured
pearls, compared to real pearls, look beautiful but are mass produced and not unique.

Max Kelada is presented as a typical Levantine in the beginning. He is informal, loud, dogmatic and a know all. However, at the end Mr. Kelada behaved like a gentleman. We find out that Mr. Kelada is actually a pragmatic 

person.

Thus, in the beginning Mr.Kelada is presented as a shell, a metaphor for a person who is hard to like. However, in 

the end, due to the good deed that Mr. Kelada had done for Mrs. Ramsay, the narrator suddenly noticed the nature and pure soul of him. 

Meaning, he saw in front of his eyes the shell opened, and inside a shiny pearl.

Mr. Kelada is the "real pearl" in the story.