HOW BAD YOUR JEALOUSY CONTROLS YOUR SELF AS REFLECTED IN VERA’S CHARACTERISTIC IN THE OPEN WINDOW by SAKI A. INTRODUCTION “The Open Window” is the story of a deception did on an unsuspecting‚ and constitutionally nervous man‚ by a young lady whose motivations for lying remain unclear. That is Vera‚ the center of the case in this story. A “very self-possessed young lady of fifteen‚” Described as a girl who has bad manner to other people. She doesn’t have parents and lives with her aunt
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The Necklace and Interlopers are two very well written short stories. In the Necklace‚ Mathilde desires more in her life. In Interlopers‚ Georg and Ulrich desire a piece of land and more importantly revenge. Both of these short stories characters are unhappy about their life‚ but when they try to fix it they cause even bigger problems. If you were never happy for what you had‚ and always wanted more‚ you would live your life like Mathilde. In the Necklace‚ Mathilde was a young woman whose life was
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Many parents with children know how hard it is to travel on long trips with them. In the short story "The Story Teller" by Saki‚ an aunt was traveling with 3 little children. When the tries to get the children’s attention‚ the children don’t respond to her and continue to disobey her. When a bachelor that was traveling in the same carriage as them starts to tell the offspring’s a story‚ the children‚ with hesitation at first‚ start to listen to him with excitement. The bachelor seemed to know what
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actions of Michael‚ from the story “Two Fisherman”by Morley Callaghan‚ are justified. Michael may not think of Smitty as a friend‚ but more of an acquaintance‚ also he does not want to compromise his dream of becoming a big news reporter‚ finally he feels pressured by the people and thus leading him to betray his friend. We have seen multiple times that Michael feels no positive or negative affection towards the hangman. Morley Callaghan deliberately shows us the contrast of the hangman and Michael
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so conflict is a key feature for works of literature. In Saki’s short story‚ “The Interlopers‚” two men have been raised to loathe one another through a long time family feud. Their journeys bring them face-to-face and present a number of different conflicts. The beginning of the story portrays man against man conflict‚ but as the story progresses and changes‚ the conflict also changes. In “The Interlopers‚” Saki immediately presents man against man conflict. Ulrich Von Gradwitz is hunting in
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In the story‚ Reginald was a fictitious character created by Saki. Trying to look deeper‚ the name‚ Reginald‚ can actually mean ‘king’. In the first sentence‚ “ ‘Never‚’ wrote Reginald to his most darling friend‚ ‘be a pioneer. It’s the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.’ ” this sentence actually means it is better to stay in middle and keep silent. Being Christians were banned in that era‚ they were being killed. This sentence in the story is very ironic. Reginald was a teenager who was
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The Story of an Hour and The Interlopers are two different stories which share a few similar details. In The Story of an Hour‚ there is a struggle which the protagonist‚ Mrs. Mallard‚ had to overcome; the death of her husband. While she sits in her room‚ she looks out the windows and sees the possibilities‚ and she tells herself that now that her husband is dead‚ she doesn’t have to worry about him anymore. She has overcome her struggle. When she walks out of her room‚ she finds Mr. Mallard‚ who
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stories‚ people have to except others even if they don’t agree with them‚ in order to achieve a common goal or satisfy others. The characters do not always do this in the stories but it is necessary for them to do so. In the story “The Interlopers"‚ the two men have been raised in their families to hate the other family over a simple thing like land. When the two men finally come face to face they are trapped by a tree branch and forced to be in each other’s presence for hours. They could
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Citizens usually uphold justice and follow the law unless motivated by other factors such as personal desires and harsh living conditions. In the story “A Wedding-Dress” by Morley Callaghan‚ Miss Schwartz steals a dress in a department store and conflicts arise within Miss Schwartz‚ between her and law enforcement officers‚ and between her and the society. The internal struggle of Miss Schwartz is caused by her greed. When she is in the department store‚ she tries to satisfy her desires through
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Writers all over the world have come up with their own way of writing. Kate Chopin‚ for instance‚ created her own style through a series of events. First‚ while she was initially following the path as a housewife‚ something horrific happened. At the same time she was running her husband’s general drugstore‚ her husband‚ Oscar Chopin‚ had caught a terrible case of malaria and soon died. After his death‚ she soon started using her misery from the death of her husband to write short novels and became
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