The story under consideration entitled Mabel was written by William Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century.

He was not only a novelist but also one of the most successful dramatists and short-story writers. Maugham travelled widely to all parts of the world. He visited Russia, America, Africa, Asia. The technique of short-story writing always interested Maugham. De Maupassant and Chekhov influenced him but he adopted his own unique technique, which is characterized by realistic and psychological presentation of the events.

The story in question “Mabel” develops the following plot. The author recalls the story of a man whose name was George whom he once met on his way to. The difficulties are shown like a sketch: “Mabel’s father died, the war came, George was sent” Here the author uses parallel constructions accompanied by asyndeton in order to add more tempo and tension. The second structural element, complications, involves the two conflicts the story obtains. The first conflict is called man against man. Seven years later Mabel wanted to marry George and George didn’t want to marry Mabel. And the inner conflict, which George obtained is called obligation against desire.

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The complications are marked by the convergence of stylistic means to show the inner state of the main character. The author resorts to the semantic field of despair: “his nerve failed him”, “he felt a terrible sinking in the pit of his stomach”, George’s “knees began to wobble” and he “was seized with the courage of despair”. To underline that George was afraid to marry Mabel but it was important for the society the author uses synonyms: “then, suddenly, without warning”; juxtaposed repetition: “he couldn’t, he really couldn’t marry her”; a rhetorical question “But how could a man tell a girl a thing like that when she had been engaged to him for seven years and had come six thousand miles to marry him?”. The author employs all these stylistic means to emphasize the idea that George should be responsible for his words but he isn’t. To show that George wanted to escape the author deals with an oxymoron. 1646 Words 7 Pages eat.” We waited for the asparagus to be cooked.

Panic seized me. It was not a question now how much money I should have left over for the rest of the month, but whether I had enough to pay the bill. It would be mortifying to find myself ten francs short and be obliged to borrow from my guest. I could not bring myself to do that. I knew exactly how much I had and if the bill came to more I made up my mind that I would put my hand in my pocket and with a dramatic cry start up and say it had been picked. 3036 Words 13 Pages moralistic principles had been evident in his writings especially in his short stories. It had awaken the ethical standards of late Russia into a more monotheistic nation.

Stories like “God Sees the Truth, But Waits”, “The Three Questions” and “What Men Live By” have deep-rooted principles that are trying to tell everyone how to live a good life. This study will try to analyze Tolstoy’s stories like God Sees the Truth but Waits, a story of a merchant Aksionov who was accused of murder and suffered a life.

10060 Words 41 Pages ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY ARMOR BY JOHN BENGAN By Aireen Grace Asis Dongon Ron Ron Sawal Fabian Rosas Catherine Palacio Villagen Shiela Marie Ordinario Villaluz Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Lit 001 (Philippine Literature) Camarines Norte State College Daet, Camarines Norte March 9, 2015 Jocelyn A. Trinidad Literature Adviser CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A short story is a brief work of literature, usually written in narrative prose. Trafareti ovoschej i fruktov dlya virezaniya iz bumagi. It is a fictional work depicting.

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1033 Words 5 Pages of The Story of an Hour summarizes the main elements of the short story. We can begin to see the story take shape as the author gets straight to the point by stating Mrs. Mallard’s health ailment and the possible danger of unexpected news is highlighted with the words, “great care must be taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Mays 278). We can start to see the direction that Chopin is headed by this first paragraph and the title of the short story is a nod. 1032 Words 5 Pages W.S. Maugham’s stories make exciting reading and give food for reflection The writer is a great master of ironic style.

By using a biased 1st person narrator the author pretends to praise and justify what in fact he exposes and condemns. Thus the writer forces the reader to see through this pretence and make his/her own conclusions as to the purport of the work. The story 'The Escape' is a fair example of Maugham's ironic style. The basic theme of the story is marriage in bourgeois society, relations.