Girl By O Henry
Girl By O.Henry
O. Henry(1862-1910) Works: The Gift of the Magi, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Cop and the Anthem Subjects: Ordinary people's lives in New York or other cities in america Themes: Bad living conditions for the poor; virtues of common people, satire on baseness Twists in endings
O. Henry (1862-1910) Works: The Gift of the Magi, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Cop and the Anthem Subjects: Ordinary people’s lives in New York or other cities in America Themes: Bad living conditions for the poor; virtues of common people; satire on baseness Twists in endings
Girl Summary: Hartley asks Vivienne to come with him in place of Heloise Vivienne(lover?) Heloise(wife?) Cooks!
Girl Summary: Hartley asks Vivienne to come with him in place of Heloise. Vivienne (lover?) Heloise (wife?) Cooks!
How O Henry Misleads Us First Scene: IN GILT Letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words:"Robbins &t Hartley, Brokers. The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-story office building. A puff of red-hot air flavoured with lemon peelings, soft-coal smoke and train oil came in through the half-open windows. Setting: Time, sound, smell, location A man with an air of mystery came in the door and went up to Hartley. I've found where she lives, he announced in the portentous half-whisper that makes the detective at work a marked being to his fellow men
How O.Henry Misleads Us First Scene: IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrubwomen were invading the cloud-capped twenty-story office building. A puff of red-hot air flavoured with lemon peelings, soft-coal smoke and train oil came in through the half-open windows. Setting: Time, sound, smell, location A man with an air of mystery came in the door and went up to Hartley. "I've found where she lives," he announced in the portentous half-whisper that makes the detective at work a marked being to his fellow men
How O Henry Misleads Us Before the second scene:. he took an eastbound car that deposited him in a decaying avenue, whose ancient structures once sheltered the pride and glory of the town Walking a few squares, he came to the building that he sought. It was a new flathouse, bearing carved upon its cheap stone portal its sonorous name,The Vallambrosa. Fire-escapes zigzagged down its front -- these laden with household goods, drying clothes, and squalling children evicted by the midsummer heat. Here and there a pale rubber plant peeped from the miscellaneous mass, as if wondering to what kingdom it belonged vegetable, animal or artificial Living conditions of Heloise
How O.Henry Misleads Us Before the second scene: … he took an eastbound car that deposited him in a decaying avenue, whose ancient structures once sheltered the pride and glory of the town. Walking a few squares, he came to the building that he sought. It was a new flathouse, bearing carved upon its cheap stone portal its sonorous name, "The Vallambrosa." Fire-escapes zigzagged down its front -- these laden with household goods, drying clothes, and squalling children evicted by the midsummer heat. Here and there a pale rubber plant peeped from the miscellaneous mass, as if wondering to what kingdom it belonged -- vegetable, animal or artificial. Living conditions of Heloise