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Post by wireman on May 18, 2022 13:13:26 GMT
Today we will discuss The Furnished Room by O. Henry
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Post by wireman on May 18, 2022 21:34:03 GMT
A story of a man searching for a woman and we are not told why. Was it someone he was in a relationship with and they broke up? That's how I looked at the story but the reason the young man is searching is not revealed but he is desperate to find her. Did they both take their own lives because they had lost each other? It's an interesting story that leaves the answers to the imagination of the reader. The author does a brilliant job of creating the feeling of longing and despair. I can't remember reading O. Henry before but I'm thinking maybe I read a story or two in literature class in high school. His descriptions are epic.  Just one example:
To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten it's nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.
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Post by spideyman on May 19, 2022 13:26:22 GMT
Interesting short story. Agree the descriptions are excellent. The reader does feel the environment of the time/the room itself and the emotions of the one who seeks his love(?)
I felt a great deal of sadness while reading this story. The ending took a twist when we learned the fate of the girl he so sort .
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Post by wireman on May 20, 2022 16:40:22 GMT
Next Wednesday we will discuss The Diary Of A Madman by Guy de Maupassant
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Just one example:
