The Painted Door Essay

For my essay analysis, I choose to do “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross because it’s a good story that shows just what you're not supposed to do to your partner in life. Throughout this breakdown of “The Painted Door,” I’m going to focus on four key literary styles. The styles are as follows: Character Development, Pace, Word Choice and lastly the tone. I will be discussing the literary styles in the order above because in that order I think it offers the best way to understand the story that Sinclair Ross wrote. Keep in mind this story takes place on a farmland between a married farmers couple and a neighboring farmer. So there aren't many people around for anybody to really want to socialize with because of how far away each farmer’s from each other. The main character I’m going to focus on throughout this essay is Ann and what she’s put through while describing what literary styles are fitted best
The reason I’d say that’s because all of the other literary styles build up into the tone and or theme of “The Painted Door”. During “The Painted Door” there are lots of emotional chords that are hit quite rapidly to portray the theme of the story worsening. The theme of this story is set around a farmer's wife who gets emotionally lost throughout and doesn’t know if she can recover. What I believe is the coolest part about the tone in “The Painted Door” is the voice over aspect. Now saying that the reason I think that’s because when you read this story aloud it gives the story its own personification because it’s coming from your mouth rather than the authors or narrators. Now the author, Sinclair Ross in my opinion was trying to portray the attitude of “The Painted Door” in a way that’s meant to tell you that what the wife did to the husband was devastating, and that the husband John was only ever trying to give the wife Ann what John thought Ann deserved and no