среда, 7 мая 2014 г.



Summing up the analysis of the story I must say that O. Henry brilliantly uses different stylistic devices such as metaphors, epithets, personification, simile, hyperbole etc. which help to reveal the main character’s nature, to create a true-to-life atmosphere of the events depicted and to give the reader food for thought. Personally I liked this story immensely as it shows that love and relationships demands truth and mutual feelings, but egoism, pride and vanity can only ruin it.


The plot of the story begins with the introduction (the first paragraph) where the reader is prepared for the intrigue, the exposition where the main character is introduced, the story itself where all thoughts and recollections of the main character take place, the climax when the bride’s brother asked Trysdale where he raked up that cactus and whether he knew Spanish; and the anticlimax or the denouement is at the very end of the story when Trysdale got to know what the word on the tag meant and what his fault was.

The given story is rather a mixture of narration and description with some insertions of dialogue and flashbacks to the past.