A Clean, Well-lighted Place Page 142
Style and Tone
In Hemingway's short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place the style throughout the story is quite different then that of the short stories we have read previously in this class. When he writes dialogue between the two waiters it is difficult to distinguish between which of the two waiters is speaking at that exact moment. Hemingway does this because at times i think the line break is still the same waiter talking, just a pause, or the breath in the conversation if it was a real life scenario. His style of writing is also different in the way that when there is a conversation there is not a so and so said like typical writers do. His conversations are written as if they are real life conversations happening in the moment. The tone is this story seemed very annoyed, and cynical to me. The waiter was completely annoyed by the old man, and even had told the man at one point that he "should have killed himself." Throughout the conversation with between the two waiters one was continuously complaining about how he wanted to just go home because he has not been in bed before three am all week.
The Gift of the Magi Page 164
O' Henry's style throughout this story was like an other typical short story i have read about love. Both of the characters were doing anything in their power to get their spouse the perfect present for them, and in the end it didn't work out. The narrator of this story seemed to be making fun of the two love birds at time. Especially when he tells the part about jim smiling because he had sold the exact watch she had just bought something for.
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