Analysis Of The Man In The Black Suit

“The man in the black suit” is a frame story, which is a story inside another story. It consists of this “very old man” telling a story about how the “devil” came to him in the woods one day when he was “only nine years old”. Writing it down, he believes, that “someone may find” what he wrote but more importantly he believes that it will give him “freedom” and some “sort of release”. The author uses long and short sentence structures to get the reader more focused and intrigued by the story. The purpose for using short sentences is to provide extra emphasis on how the devil appears and smells giving the example “The smell of sulfur.” and “The fingers were hideously long.” It also portrays the sequence of events going on throughout the story