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Under our study the passage of the story 'Doctor in the house' written by a famous British writer and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal of the 20 th century Richard Gordon who worked also as a ship's surgeon, but left his medical practice in 1952. The story 'Doctor in the house' is one of Gordon's twelve 'Doctor' books and is noted for witty description of a medical student's years of professional training.
'Doctor in the house' is not really intriguing title for the story, but, perhaps, this simplicity makes this story so attractive for an experienced reader, who is able after looking through passages to find extremely interesting phrases, word combinations, unusual style of writing and etc.
Speaking about the style of the story we can say that it is autobiography. The plot of the passage is build round 'an unpleasant inevitability', we mean the final examination of medical students. At the beginning we dive in the meaning of the final examination in medical universities. Here we meet the main character who is the young author at the same time. Trying to pass his exams the author managed to pass his true emotions and feelings before, during and after exams. What is more, Gordon gives us a brilliant systematic structure of the social types of people using a little bit irony. Well, when young Richard knew his results, the whole world stood still round him and everything was calm. We see so-called 'Happy End' of the passage.
In my opinion, in these pages we see a conflict which can be described as the conflict between man and fate. The person who saw many examples during the examinations different styles of behavior, and he was getting nervous about failing his chance. Even his friends told him that 'One doesn't fail exams. One comes down, one muffs, one is ploughed, plucked or pipped. These infer a misfortune that is not one's own fault. To speak of failing is bad taste. It's the same idea as talking about passing away and going above instead

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