Who is Mr. Botibol from Collected Stories and what is their importance? Collected-Stories English & Literature Mr. Botibol | Collected Stories

Mr.Botibol is a tall, thin man with no shoulders who inherits a piece of commercial property. In the process of selling it, he confides to his attorney that he has, at the age of fifty-eight, never known a single success in his life. But Mr. Botibol has a secret outlet—he "conducts" classical music over the radio. Soon be buys a conductor's wand, black tails, and has a mini-concert hall built in his home where he can conduct. He meets a young woman at a music store and invites her to dinner; he then shows her the concert hall complete with a piano whose keys produce no sound. She goes along with his fantasy and "plays" the piano while he "conducts" the orchestra to recordings over loud speaker. She then reveals that she is a music teacher, and Mr. Botibol's fantasy world is quickly shattered.