欧亨利作品浅析.英语版
A Brief Analysis O’ Henry’s Writing Style of The Last Leaf-1
A Brief Analysis of O’ Henry’s Writing Style of The Last Leaf摘要：欧哼利是美国二十世纪最著名的短篇小说家。
他的作品因结构设计巧妙，结尾出其不意而为人称道。
他语言幽默，描写的人物富有生活情趣，因此被誉为“美国生活的幽默百科全书”。
“欧亨利式结尾”以出人意料的写作手法，使小说极具戏剧性并享誉世界文坛。
《最后一片叶子》就是一个典型的代表。
作者运用了幽默讽刺的戏剧手段，及其出其不意的结尾，揭示了人性的主题，让文章升华。
欧亨利擅长于人物心理的描写，同时还包括社会背景所反映的人性特征。
总之，这种独特的艺术结尾激发了人们对人性特点的深思，而人性特点又升华了艺术结尾，对读者的心灵产生了持久的震撼力。
本文通过分析这种写作手法和人物特征来达到对小说内涵更准确的把握，从而帮助读者透过表象看到作者真正的意图，进而发现其作品中的艺术魅力。
关键字：欧亨利；作品；写作手法；分析AbstractO' Henry is the most popular short-story writer at 20th century in American, who is know as one of the originators of modern short story. His works are famous for its ingenious art conception, as well as unexpected ending. Describing the characters with humorous language and full of life interest, O' Henry is known as the “Humorous encyclo pedia of American life”.O‘Henry ending style wakes the novels extremely dramatic by unpredictable writing technique.The last leave is a typical representative. The author often gives irony and surprising ending. He let the theme sublimate. O’Henry was good at using psychological description of the human characters which reflected social background. In all, this king of special artistic ending inspired the people to think about the characters about human nature, while the characters of human nature sublimated.The thesis analyses the writing method and character feature to grasp accurately the connotation of the novel, then help the reader read the real intention through representation, and then catch sight of the artistic glam in this works.Key words: O’ Henry; writing style; humanityContents 中文摘要AbstractAcknowledgementsIntroductionⅠ.Literature ReviewA. A Brief Introduction to O’ HenryB. A Brief Introduction to The Last Leaf1. The Main Content2. The Theme3. The CharactersⅡThe Writing Style of O’ HenryA. The Writing Features in The Last LeafB. The Feature of CharactersC. The Feature of LanguageⅢ. The Inversion EndingA. The Definition of the Inversion EndingB. The Function of the Inversion EndingC. The Inversion Ending of The Last Leaf ConclusionNotes noteBibliographyI. IntroductionA. Literature ReviewA. A Brief Introduction to O’ HenryWilliam Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862-June 5, 1910), was known by his pen name O’ Henry. As a master of short stories, O’ Henry was called the American Guy De Maupassant. O’Henry’s short stories are known for their smart, wordplay, and clever twist ending. It roots in his rich experience of life.Throughout his life he wrote more than 300 short stories.His stories are great number of warm characterization and most of them are root in the real life. He shows us an style of the original and typical American democratic. He factually narrates a real America where the lower class lives in. All his stories make up constitute a true complete picture of American life.In order to learn more about O. Henry’s articles, we should pay some particular attention to what happened in his life and why he wrote stories such as The Cop and the Anthem. O. Henry, whose given name is William Sydney Porter, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store. He moved to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including one as a bank clerk. In 1884 he started a humorous weekly publication called The Rolling Stone. When the paper failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. In 1898 he entered a penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio.While in prison O. Henry started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret. His first work, Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking (1899), appeared in McClure's Magazine.2 After serving three years of his five year sentence, Porter emerged from the prison in 1901 and changed his name to O. Henry. He movedto New York City in 1902 and from December 1903 to January 1906 he wrote a story a week for the New York World, while also publishing in other magazines.Having dropped out of school, dealing with the loss of his wife, and being subjected to prison life, O. Henry was totally aware of the cruelty of being a “small potato” in society. His experience shows the majority people he met in daily life were those from the lower class of the society such as clerks, policemen, and waitresses. This helped him to get involved with the majority of the working class who are the real people who are face various kinds of stress every day. However, surprisingly, this is also where true love appears.In His most famous story, The Gift of the Magi3 he spins the tale of a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. The husband sells his only favorite watch to buy a set of combs for his wife, while she uses the money from selling her beautiful hair to buy him a pocket chain. The author arranges the entire plot just to make readers anticipate the excitement of the outcome. From the beginning, the readers keep guessing what the couple will buy for each other, and the irony of their gifts is the greatest suspense the author puts into this story. Finally the author gives the answer to the readers question in the ending: Mr. Henry found his love in the lower class of society which kept me wondering, “Where can we find the true love in our life?” Perhaps love is just like a story with a twisted ending; it might seem normal or even a bit sad from the outside, but to the people who are in the story, and those who are aware of the true meaning of love, happiness will remain in their heart for a long time.Even though O. Henry made some mistakes during his life, most people will still remember him as a prolific and prominent American short-story writer; a master of surprise endings. We are not allowed to judge a person only by his experiences; moreover, readers can always tell an author’s pers onality through his words. O. Henry has always been a favorite in American literature for his acute perspective of the creatures living in society, and his peculiar writing style of the twisted ending. Smile with tears and laugh with touched heart--what mo re can we ask from life’s stories?B. A Brief Introduction to The Last Leaf1. The Main ContentThe last leaf is one of the O’Henry’s short story. In this paper, author strive to praise the great personality and character of the little people, and show them yearn for the good wishes of human world. Sue and Johnsy are good friend who have the same interests and hobbies. They shared a studio. However, Johnsy has got pneumonia that is slight of figure. Her lie weakly on the bed. Doctor told her friend Sue that her illness can heal only one percent of hope. And it’s up to her if she really wants to live. She always thinks about that she will never recover. Sue is so sad. She pretends to be a pleasure appearance of the spirit and begin to draw in the room. At first, she thought that Johnsy was sleep, until she heard her voice count. In the first place, she quickly fall the leaves in a few tree. Sue asked she why did that. Johnsy said that I would die when the last leaf falled down. Sue felt Johnsy’s idea was negative but can’t convince her. Sue turned to seek help and hope from Behrman. Behrman is a sixty-year-old man who lives on the ground floor under Johnsy and Sue. Although he has not managed to paint his masterpiece so far, he still insists on his painting work. The old man does care about Johnsy’s condition, and he does his bit to help her. Since that day, he begins to spend the rest of the day to paint his masterpiece on the brick wall. As time goes by, Johnsy realizes that the last leaf is still there and she is still alive. She is cheered up by the scene she sees. However, on that stormy night, Behrman catches pneumonia while he is painting his masterpiece, the old man, the unknown painter dies from a severe cold as his shoes and clothes are wet through.Last leaf, last love Yesterday I heard a heart-stirring story written by O Henry. It said in an autumn, a sad girl lied on the bed. She has a bad serious illness. And she would die soon. She looked attentively at a leaf outside the window, and told to an old painter who cared for her that she would die when the last leaf fell. The old painter didn’t want the young girl to die; he wanted to give her a wish to live. He knew that there would be a rainstorm soon; the leaf will be blown off. For continuing th e girl’s life, the old painter drew a green leaf on the wall when it rained heavily.2. The ThemeThroughout the whole story, we could known that a great number of emotion with each other. Johnsy and Sue were best friend who has the same hobbies, and they help each other. Although they live in poverty, they still in order to dream hard. Sue always care about Johnsy when she knew her friend got pneumonia. During cure Johnsy, Sue had been taking care of her and worry about her. In the same time, there has a vital person who is their neighbor Behrman. He was a good man. He always concerned about the girls, even paid through the nose for save Johnsy ’s life.From this short story, we can be summed up the three points.Firstly, showing the human indifference cruel in the realistic society. They are a group of struggle for the dream of artist. They live in the gutter. No one takes care about them when they suffer the pneumonia.Secondly, there are high praise of beauty and kindness for human nature. It is the life of the improvised instead of the accidental referring to the last leaf about the three painters. They would be great painters. Being in the low class of the society, they extremely long for success, and they make their best effort to create a masterpiece. They encourage each other, and be willing to make a sacrifice at any moment without hesitation. They will not fade next to the upper class because of poverty. The other way around, they are remarkable because of their fraternal love. And the priceless friendship is just like the ivy leaf which constitutes their noble spirit.The last, pursuit of the value of life. It is not only for the natural life to cherish, but also pursue for art life. Johnsy would know the life sense when she realized that Behrman saved her life. The poor own the spirit of unselfishness and sacrifice. Readers are glad and delighted to see the cheering up of Johnsy after losing Behrman.3. The Characters PersonalitySue is Johnsy’s roommate and an intimate friend who is described suc h an smart, optimistic, kind and friendly artist. She takes care of Johnsy and imagines her in her fight against the illness during this time.Johnsy is an excellent girl, but has a frail body. In fact, she is expecting to live ahappy and romantic life. She got pneumonia, life seems hopeless, however, she never loses hope for life and fight to stay alive even live longer. She counts the leaves, for she thinks about that she is going to die relative to the last leaf falling.At the very start, reader’s impression of Behrman is a man who is full of self- conceit. He has always wanted to finish his masterpiece, but finally nothing can be done. However, it is a complete surprise to all of us that the last leaf he painted brings back Johnsy’s life. In other words, he is a man who is warmhearted and emotional. Besides, he reflects humanity.Johnsy is a young woman from California who has come to New York to be an artist. Physically, all we really know about her is that she is small -- she is described as a "mite of a little woman."Emotionally, people would say that Johnsy is a little immature. A person who would convince herself that the span of her life is controlled by a leaf on a vine is not someone who thinks clearly.You might say she's mentally strong because she can convince herself to live or die. But it's a bit of a negative quality.Behrman is a person who wants others to be happy. Although when for the first time sue told him about Jhonsy's fantasies about the leaf, he reacted very badly and gave Jhonsy moral support which can be provided to her by preventing the last leaf from falling. He risked his life and painted a picture of the last leaf on the opposite wall in the terrible cold weather. he is a down to earth person and a gem in millions.The doctor, in fact, is so selfish. He seems concerned about Johnsy’s illness. However, he does nothing for Johnsy ’s disease.ⅡThe Writing Style of O’ HenryWhen people try to describe O. Henry’s writing style, they always use the term “smile with tears,” which implies his twisted way of thoughts and endings about every story. These stories usually end in a humorous but also cru el kind of way. It’s absolutely useful to elevate the artistic thought in writing a thoughtful story.A. The Writing Features in The Last LeafO’ Henry is one of the leading short story writers, and the meaning he usually expresses has great originality of sample language. His ending type that king of O’Henry always can give a person a kind of accident. O’ Henry talks about in The Llast Leaf that is a heavy dangerous patient looking the leaves out of the window ,which the patient regards it as a hint of her own life. Once the last leaf falls, she also dies. Finally, an old painter saves her, and gives her hope. We can learn from the three aspects:Firstly, word selection is accuracy, concise and vivid. The biggest characteristic of his words is easy to understand. At the beginning of the novel, he often uses the same specific and accurate words. The author brings readers a maze. For example, “angles”, “curves”, “cross”, those words are exact and vivid. It can express complex terrain. The word “colony” can express that people are in poverty live there. However, there are still outstanding artist and excellent works of painting in the story. The Last Leaf has a sentence: Then she swaggered into Johnsy’s room with her drawing board,…”“Swaggered” is rather than “walk in a self-satisfactory”. We can know that Sue do not want Johnsy worry about her, and she deliberately pretends to be fine.Secondly, it has the diversification of sentence patterns. In The Last Leaf, simple sentences are more than complex sentences; Short verses are more than long verses. Such as the second paragraph in the novel1: So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth- century 1Foeman, Henry James. New Books Review: O’Henry’s Short Stories [J]. The North American Review, 1998gables and Dutch attics and low rents. Then they imported some power mugs and a chafing dish or two from Sixth Avenue, and became a “colony”. When we read that, we will feel fluency and vivid. Nonetheless, if author all use simple sentence that will be donkeywork.Lastly, the paragraph arrangement is clever. In the first, doctor told Sue that her friend can be saved just has 10 percent chance. There are seeds underneath it. When people all sympathized Johnsy and the last leaf, however, the old man died.B. The Feature of CharactersO’ Henry’s short story is popular and easy to understand. No matter what happened, and no matter who is protagonist. His story always describes that the relation of the world and American style. In a general way, the desire of people is quite complex. But the thoughts of his characters relatively are simple. The center of the conflict seems to be the poor and the rich.O’ Henry often wandered about New York City over a long period o f time, and sometimes arrogance chat with strangers on the streets or in the parks. Day after day he was very familiar with ordinary people and the way he stands for them in his stories gives the readers the impression that they meet these characteristics, they would not be easy to find in a multitude of people and they had a same feature ordinary. On the other hand, as O’ Henry lived in the bottom of society, he knew life could be very tough for people from the low class, and he knew the law could be very cruel to poor people. Therefore, he showed great sympathy for the poor, resulting in the fact that the poor were usually of good qualities in his works.The abjection people in O’ Henry’s short story, could still express love and show solicitude for others. In order to buy her husband a platinum chain as a Christmas gift, his wife sold a head of show hair. Her husband for the same purpose, sold the watch to buy his wife asset of comb. Although each other’s gift lost use value, their relationship is priceless. He is in order to encourage poor and stick young artist to survive. The old artist painting a leaf of never withered in the wind and rain night. Forhis work at the expense of life, but the young artist is live. These are the little things and ordinary people in the life, but they can help others.O’Henry’s success is that he is good at grasping the typical scenes in life. In small fragments of life, the dilemma the protagonist must make a choice. It can not only depict character psychology, also can show life contradiction. The scene arrangement he puts is proper, so within short length to achieve the effect of art and ideas.C. The Feature of LanguageO’ Henry is the representative of the American ordinary people because he is also one of the ordinary groups. Regarded as the founder of American short stories, he is skillful in using a great number of language features in his novel. The language he uses is on the basis of the development of the plots, which is characterized with humorous words, vivid characters and strong regional features. He is also adept at creating figurative languages.The informal language that he uses always makes readers easily accept his views and easily understand what he wants to express. O’ Henry uses the informal language, hence readers will be easy to understand what he wants to express. Another characteristic of his language is significant. He can indirectly express the meaning of humor. Readers can still recall after reading. O’ Henry uses a great number of rhetoric in his short story, such as simile, metaphor and irony . It makes readers experience his sense of humor vividly. In O’ Henry’s writings, metaphor is a feature which is worth mentioning. The image in metaphor represents specific meaning. O’ Henry attaches importance to the simile. O’Henry uses simile not only in usage but also in other sides.In a short story, we should know that simplicity and clarity of language is significant. O’ Henry knows how important it is and he uses it in his works so that he could be a master of short stories. Due to the small size, short stories need the writer to concentrate every word on his works. It makes creating a short story a hard and laborious job. Of all O’ Henry’s language, simplicity and clarity are the most important features, especially in the aspect of describing characters.Here is an example. In The Last Leaf, O’ Henry uses one sentence to portray Behrman: “He was past sixty and had a Michael Angelo’s Moses beard curling down from the head of a satyr along the body of an imp2.” It is specific enough for the readers to imagine how the old painter looks like. There is another more fantastic example. “I must call Behrman up to be my model for the old hermit miner.” This sentence is said by Sue. Here “the old hermit miner” perfectly tells us about the appearance of Behrman.2Kirkpatrick, D.L. Reference Guided to American Literature [M]. Chicago: St. James Press，1987Ⅲ. The Inversion EndingA. The Definition of the Inversion EndingO’Henry’s stories are famous for the twist ending. We also called that “O’Henry ending”. It usually refers to the author at the end of story suddenly brings the characters to unexpected changes in psychological situation. Or making the fate of the protagonist reversed. Make article appear unexpected results. Not only in surprise, but also understandable.O’ Henry’s greatest achievement was to create the twist ending. At the beginning of the stories, he created a smoke screen and made readers follow the general direction that he wanted them to believe. And just when the readers were almost to believe in the false appearance, the story was completely reversed.O’ Henry deliberately used the twist ending, which was totally on the opposite of the beginning that gave readers full of surprise. And this meant at the end of an article, the destiny of the characters had changed greatly and to the readers the mental status was also altered. Usually, O’ Henry set some kinds of mysteries that had mentioned to fulfill readers’ curiosity in the previous article, which had sown the seed of the change in the ending. The sudden change led to a deep understanding of the situation and the conflict that the article had revealed. This kind of ending was somehow very attractive and it was frequently seen in the O’ Henry’s stories.B. Function of the Twist EndingIn his stories, O’ Henry tried to provide a true pictur e of American life. He could not ignore the indispensable part of reality. That was what the ordinary people believe the American dream. It is a national ethos of the United States. The American people believe that American was a big stage, it could make everybody gain success and wealth so long as he had enough courage and capacity. O’ Henry’s novel touch the broadest range of the society including the politic, economic and different culture. And from a different point of the world and society, he reflect the shinning side of theordinary people. These are all because of his experiences. He had gone through many failures and frustrations that he used to be a bookkeeper, a drugstore clerk, a Texas Ranger, an accountant, a draftsman, a bank teller and a newspaper columnist. Life was hardship that he was even thrown into prison. His experience let him understand the life was not easy and difficult world clearly. He usually felt sympathy for the lower- class people. So for O’ Henry, satire and praise were two ordinary themes in his works. And from the twist ending, the totally changed ending made the theme more obvious. So when we read O’ Henry’s short stories, we would have an ambivalent feeling that sometimes the plot is relaxing, and sometimes the plot was rushed. As for relaxing, just because O’ Henry’s w orks were referred to the ordinary people’s life; and as for rushed, root in the contrast between the beginning and the ending made the readers eagerly want to know the truth. That was the charm of twist ending.C. The Inversion Ending of The Last LeafIn this novel, he refused remorselessly and ruthlessly neighbor’s request who wanted to draw a picture of a classic works. He seemed listless who didn’t care when the patient counts the fallen leave to waiting death. After the stormy night, the last leaf still stands there. The last leaf lets her restore hope in life, and she began to recover. We believe that it just a common medical miracle. However, the heroine’s words made the plot reversal occurred. The dead leaf which was saved the life was drawing by rebarbative artist in stormy night. However, the old man got the pneumonia and died. The old man warms everyone. The last leaf not only gave the girl’s courage for a better life, but also moved every reader to tears. It was a beautiful and moving story.O’H enry’s story plots develop fast. At the end of the story, suddenly people’s psychology changes unexpectedly but reasonably, in unanimous with the reality of life. Although the affecting ending gives us the unprepared sorrow, we can only read and guess until find a gleam of hope. Those human virtues told us that life isparamount and thus promotes the theme. The end of the story suddenly reversed but reasonably as O’ Henry’s other stories. The author did not positively narrate Behrman’s painting the ivy leaf, at the end with Sue’s words told the truth.“I have something to tell you, white mouse,” she said. “Mr. Behrman died of pneumonia to-day in the hospital. He was ill only two days. The janitor found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were wet through and icy cold. They couldn’t imagine where he had been on such a dreadful night. And then they found a lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that had been dragged from its place, and some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it, and —look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn’t you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it’s Behrman’s masterpiece —he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell.” (O’ Henry, 2010, p.252)The story suddenly stopped here. A mystery was revealed and the story reached its climax, which impacted on the ending. The author always went in lightly, without ups and downs, and then told a story to readers slowly and quietly. Nevertheless the end exposed some hints, which made readers suddenly comprehend. Because before it we could not see any clues that old painter painted leaf. We could not help thinking if the last leaf fell down, whe ther Johnsy’s life would end. But it was surprising! What was the leaf? What was the strength that made it miraculously never fall? He saved a life and created a miracle. The twist ending revealed the miracle of art. The final piece of ivy leaf was fully reflected this twist ending. That also resulted in a unique artistic charm. Aftertaste we could see Behrman was the real protagonist and the spirit of the story throughout.IV. ConclusionAs a great productive writer, O’ Henry enjoys a good reputation fo r his unique writing style, his work owns humorous words, unexpected ending parts which make him one of the three greatest short story masters in the world.The leading roles in O’ Henry’s short stories, such as The Gift of Magi, The Cop And The Anthem, A Service of Love, are ordinary people for the most part. His work describes their life and experiences and shows their lofty mind. He is concerned about the weakness of the poor, and says highly the good qualities of human being. The virtues of the characte rs are the things O’ Henry wants to convey through the stories which will stimulate the new generations to do the right things, which means a lot.Each story of O’ Henry is cleverly constructed, but what makes his work known as mentioned is the twist ending part. It is easy for the readers to go through a story, but it is a challenge to know the ending. Sometimes, the story ends just with the coming of the highlight, then leave the readers overwhelming. The events are set in the specific order of occurrence, which makes the ending hard to predict.O’ Henry’s special handling of the ending works out to a great extent. It reveals the real American society that time. But by using the twist ending, he praised the low class people and encourages them to pursue a good life in spite of the hard conditions. Twist ending is the link which binds the author’s intention with the words the author uses to write.BibliographyFoeman, Henry James. New Books Review: O’Henry’s Short Stories [J]. The North American Review, 1998.Garcia. E. Current. O’ Henry (William Sydney Porter) [M]. New York: Longman, 1976.Kirkpatrick, D.L. Reference Guided to American Literature [M]. Chicago: St. James Press，1987.Kirkpatrick, John. The Short Stories of O’ Henry [M]. Beijing: Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, 1987.Stephen, Leacock. 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the gift of the Magi欧亨利短篇小说分析
• When Jim comes home, he reveals that he has sold his watch to buy lovely combs for Della's hair.
• The two are overcome with love as they realize they have each sacrificed their most prized possession for one another.
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• There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
The Gift of the Magi
《麦琪的礼物》欧亨利短篇小说分析
作者与小说风格
• 作为短篇小说大师的欧·亨利，最善于捕捉和把握生活中的典型场面，善于在典型的环 境和场面中塑造人物的性格特征，他在短篇小说的艺术处理上最大特点就是“小说的意 外结局”。出乎意料，又在情理之中。读者眼看着情节似乎明明朝着一个方向发展，但 结局往往来了个出其不意。然而这意外的结局一般来说又是令人宽慰的，正是所谓“含 泪的微笑”。在他的小说中，幽默的语言是贯穿始终的，特别是意外的结局令小说产生 出令人啼笑皆非的幽默效果，也是其短篇小说的重要特点之一。
主要ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ容
• 圣诞节的前一天,住在公寓里的贫穷的黛拉想给丈夫吉姆一个惊喜,可是她只有一元八角 七,她知道这点钱根本不够买一件像样的的礼物,于是她把引以自豪的褐色瀑布似的秀发 剪下来,卖了,换来了20美元。找遍了大大小小的商店,她花去21美元,终于买到一条朴素的 白金表链,这可以配上吉姆的那块金表。而吉姆也想给老婆一个惊喜,他同样卖掉了祖传 的一块金表，吉姆卖掉了他的金表为德拉买了一套“纯玳瑁做的，边上镶着珠宝”的梳子； 黛拉卖掉了自己的长发为吉姆买了一条白金表链。他们都为对方舍弃了自己最宝贵的东 西，而换来的礼物却因此变得毫无作用了。
欧亨利的作品介绍
麦琪的礼物--Gift Of The Magi 爱的奉献--A Service Of Love 警察和赞美诗--The Cop And The Anthem 财神与爱神--The Mammon And The Archer 没有完的故事--An Unfinished Story 忙碌经纪人的浪漫史--The Romance Of A Busy Broker 刎颈之交--Telemachus, Friend 婚姻手册--The Handbook Of Hymen 比绵塔薄饼--The Pimienta Pancake 公主与美洲狮--The Princess And The Puma 催眠术家杰甫·彼得斯--Jeff Peters As A Personal Magnet 精确的婚姻学--The Exact Science Of Matrimony 艺术良心--Conscience In Art 双料骗子--A Double-dyed Deceiver 女巫的面包--Withes' Loaves 吉米·海斯和缪里尔--Jimmy Hayes And Muriel 小熊约翰·汤姆的返祖现象--The Atavism Of John Tom Little Bear 提线木偶--The Marionettes 两位感恩节的绅士--Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen 最后的常春藤叶--The Last Leaf 丛林中的孩子--Babes In The Jungle 汽车等待的时候--While The Auto Waits 华而不实--Lost On Dress Parade 供应家具的房间--The Furnished Room 索利托牧场的卫生学--Hygeia At The Solito 慈善事业数学讲座--The Chair Of Philanthromathematics 虎口拔牙--Shearing The Wolf 黄雀在后--The Man Higher Up “醉翁之意”--“Next To Reading Matter” 人生的波澜--The Whirligig Of Life
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Reaction to an Article——Short Stories of O.Henry O.Henry is a nice master of short story at the twentieth century in America.His unique sense of humor is full of depression and sad emotions.Due to this kind of bitter laughter,we could feel exaggerated,cynical,witty and humorous when we read them.Throughout O.Henry’s work,the plot develops unexpectedly at the end of the story.When the readers feel dismayed,they actually believe that the author really gives a reasonable end of the story.It’s quite fantastic.Henry is also good at observing things and focus on details,which makes his writing lively.Anyhow,“The Gift of the Magi”and “The Last Leaf”give me an impression mostly.The Gift of the Magi mainly tells the story that the day before Christmas,poor Della want to give her husband Jim a surprise.However,she only had one dollar and eighty-seven cents.She knew that the little money was not enough to buy a nice present.So Della sold her long,beautiful hair which fell about her shoulders “like a cascade of brown waters”.Then,Della looked all over the shop,finally buying a platinum fob chain,which can be matched with Jim's watch.But,Jim wanted to surprise Della as well.He sold his proud gold watch and bought her a set of bs that Della had watched long in a Broadway’s window.After reading this article,it really gives me a big shock.In this story,the main characters all lost their most valuable things ——Jim’s golden watch and Della’s beautiful hair.Behind this,I saw they loved each other deeply.The love in their family letting me feel that cold Christmas Eve has be e the warmest heaven just because of their gifts.It is so selfless that that they can sacrifice their most valuable things in order to give each other the best gift.I learned how to respect others’love and how to love others.With this kind of love,mutual understanding between man and woman could full of trust and affection.I firmly believe that the world will have a better tomorrow as long as our hearts full of love.The story The Last Leaf described a young couple of good friends Sue and Joanna,who“found their tastes in art,chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that they joint studio resulted”.Unfortunately,an unseen stranger,whom the doctors called Pneumonia,spread in the in that city and Joanna got it seriously.One day afternoon,Joanna was desperately looking out of the window and was counting the leaves on the ivy tree.She firmly convinced that she would leave the world after the last leaf fell.She hadn't any passion for the future life.Sue has no other better way but to ask help from Mr.Behrman,an old poor artist who lived on the ground floor beneaththem,was a failure in art.He has always wanted to paint a masterpiece,but had never begun it.At the beginning,he was very scornful about this frustrated girl who was giving up her life after hearing of the last leaf story from Sue.Actually,in this old man's feeling inside,he earnestly wanted to save this poor and young girl.He painted the last vivid and lovely leaf throughout a dreadful night.Finally,this masterpiece has been pleted and Joanna was full of hope again.However,Mr.Behrman died because of the Pneumonia.The story ended here,but,the sincere friendship would never stop forever because it is hovered in the readers’heart.Let us respect this best art-man——Behrman.Though Behrman died at the end of the novel,such way of Behrman’s death is really surprising.Because we all know,his pneumonia was much worse than Joanna and his death will e sooner or later.Anyways,Behrman saved Joanna in a silent and artistic way,which truly shocked me.In O.Henry’s eyes,Behrman was a failure in art,but we might say he was a success in humanity.That’s also why I like Henry’s novel,even though O.Henry did not give Behrman too many words.By the way,I also associate him with my parents after reading The Last Leaf.Our parents breed us and give us their best present.Just like old Behrman,who sacrificed himself,helped Joanna cheer up.Here is also another story.A long time ago,there was a huge apple tree.A little boy loved to e and lay around it every day.He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him.Time went by,the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day.After a long time,the boy came back.However,in order to live,he picked all the tree’s apples and sold them for money.The boy even chopped off the branches to build his house and used its trunk to build the boat.Finally,the boy returned after he left for many years.He is too old and wanted a place to rest.The old tree shared its roots and gave the last best place to the boy.The boy is like us and the tree is just like old Behrman,our parents.So,we shall do all of our efforts to return the contributions to them.In many conditions,O.Henry's novel is so attractive and wonderful.With these unexpected but reasonable endings,Henry expresses his ideas pletely——something reflects the reality of the society.Perhaps,this might be the reason why O.Henry is so famous.Reading Henry Henry's novels,there is always a relaxed but can not wait to feel,is easy,because his story is not heavy,and that can not wait,but also because I always eager to know the truth,Look at this seems to be not logical,unexpected,but reasonable,intriguing end.Among them,the most famous,is "Maggie's gift."In the beginning,the author focuses on the golden watch of James Dillingham Young and his wife,and the hair of Draco.He wrote: "If the Queen of Sheba lived in the apartment opposite the courtyard,one day De la will be the hair loose down,exposing the window to dry,sothat the Queen's pearl baby eclipsed;if the basement filled with And when he passed by,he would work out a gold watch,so that King Solomon might be jealous with his bearded eyes."The couple lived in poverty,but fell in love with one another,The other a Christmas gift,Jim sold the table,buy a b,and his wife has sold his hair,bought a bracelet.At the beginning of this period,I really for the couple grievances,strenuous thought for each other to buy a gift,but became a great irony.The rich can spend as much money,but the poor have to use their most valuable thing to exchange.But as I read,I wrote,"As you know,Maggie is a wise man and a wise man who brings presents to Jesus who was born in the manger,Since they are smart people,there is no doubt that their gifts are also smart gifts,if you run into two things exactly the same,may also have the right to exchange here,I have been awkward to introduce you to the It was not surprising that the two silly children in the apartment suite were not surprised by the plain story,and they sacrificed the most precious thing in their house for the sake of the other,but let us say the last word to the present wise man,The two of them are the cleverest,the smar of all those who give and receive gifts,like the two of them.Wherever they are,they are the smar people.Maggie."Yes,on the face of it,they are most unwise to sacrifice the most precious things of their home to each other.But their love for each other is the price of money,money can not be exchanged for the truth,the Christmas gift is just a symbol,but the rally of love is indeed above the crowd.They can be called Maggie - the spread of love for the world sent the Gospel of the saints.They symbolize this valuable quality,in the author's view,this is the world's most intelligent things.The end of this paragraph,is the European-Henry little end of the ments,but enough to see the author's praise of true love,I believe the world has the truth,the hope of a better world.In this book,I most like,there are "noble liar"series,Jie Pu Peters and An Dai these two liars,in the "precise marriage","charity mathematics lecture","Art conscientiousness "and"tiger tooth extraction ",through various exotic methods of deception,and sometimes at the beginning or end,you always thought that the two will do something good while cheating,such as two thousand dollars to Mrs.Trotter To get married,or to do the school,but in the end,the money or to their hands,it is ironic.But in any case,for these two liars,but how I hate it.I think the reason lies in the following passage: "You go to church in your hometown,do worship,and behave like a decent citizen,but you e to Chicago and want to deprive others of money."Those people are the same kind of villains as you want to be today.You know,the people who sell counterfeit money is also a small old,rely on his breadwinner.It is precisely because you these hypocritical citizens specifically want to get something for nothing,only to contribute to the If you do not have them,you have nothing to do.You're going to rob the man selling counterfeit money,and it may take years to study the industry.If he gets the money,you can go to the police,and you get his money,he had no choice but to utter a silent,pawn his coat will be replaced for a change of course,he willtake the money,"This is Mr.Tucker's role,and it is the inner words of Jeppe Peters.Human nature is good,no one is born to be bad,but it is precisely because these want to get something for the hypocrites,capitalists,only to make the poor people are helpless,they are forced by life,forced to cheat.The people they cheated,but also take most of the ill-gotten gains,the two use of greed,good and vanity,indolent mind,with their freedom,money and even life as a bargaining chip,to make a living,for them,What really hateful place?The author of the dark corrupt American society,is the biggest liar,is the source of evil.In addition,there are "flashy","car waiting time,"the two articles side by side,a encounter,the real upper class to hide their identity,the poor have their own illusory into the rich,which can be seen at the time the United States The social atmosphere - money first.This trend is still prevalent in many places,is lamentable.This is the inner contradiction of Europe Henry,on the one hand,he believed and praised the true love of mankind,such as "Maggie's Gift","Love Dedication","Bear John Tom's Ancestral Phenomenon",He satirized the world of things unpredictable,hypocritical cunning side,such as "with furniture rental room""two Thanksgiving gentleman."In his pen,the bad guys have good side,and the so-called gentleman,powerful people,is the real forces of darkness.Such as "re-life"in Jimmy,"the tiger's mouth extraction"in the hardware giant.This is obviously not consistent with the logic of ordinary people can be read down,look at the munity,this is the truth.Perhaps people marvel at the ingenious writing of Henry Henry,but more of a shock to the dark side of society in which we are looming but no one dares to face it."Police and hymn"should be the text we have learned very ironic,and impressed me a very short story.Holiday is very happy to buy back this book,so when the toilet every day will be more than a pastime content.Europe Henry's novel idea,language,humor,the out e is often surprising;and because of the description of a large number of characters,rich in life,known as the "American life of the encyclopedia of humor."Therefore,his best short stories such as "Sacrifice of Love","Police and Hymn","Room with Furniture Rental","Gift of Maggie"and "Last Ivy of Leaves"Short stories.His words are lively,good at using puns,correct pronunciation,homophonic and old code new ideas,fun,be known as [tearful smile].He also describes,creates and reproduces the atmosphere,especially the metropolitan nightlife,with precise details.There is a unique art style called "tearful smile".Europe Henry's soul in the novel all cohesion in the end,so that the reader seems to be plain before the witty and humorous description of the sounds,unknowingly entered the author carefully set the maze,until the last,Suddenly,such as electric light flash,before illuminating the previously hidden everything,as if in the reader hide and seek,or in the play masks,to the reader the last surprise."Maggie's Gift"is an interesting article written by O.Henry.It tells the story of Christmas the day before,the poor Dela in the apartment wanted to give her husband Jim a surprise,but she only one dollaroctagonal seven points,she knew that this money is not enough to buy any good gift,so she put Pride in the brown waterfall-like hair cut down,sold,in exchange for 20 dollars.Looking through the shops,Della spent 21 dollars,and finally buy a simple platinum bracelet,which can be ac panied by Jim's piece of gold watch.Jim also wanted to give his wife a surprise,he also sold the proud gold watch,bought the envy of long-awaited full set of beautiful bs for Christmas gifts.From this article,although on the surface they are very unwise to sacrifice their home each other's most precious things,but I deeply feel that they love each other each other.They can sacrifice their most expensive items,in order to buy the best gift to each other.But the two sides to sell their precious items,then the other party's gift is not suitable for their own,and they do these things,are for the sake of each other,did not consider themselves.It is because they love each other,and is deeply in love with each other,will have such an interesting ending.Europe Henry to the short stories of the United States to bring new atmosphere,his work which has long enjoyed a good reputation,and has the world influence.Love is also intoxicating why the wine,the book can be incense I do not have to spend.以上就是《对欧亨利小说英文版的评价》的全部内容，主要描述小说,评价,亨利,我们,大家、作者、怎么、影响，希望对网友有用。
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欧亨利短篇小说读后感英文O.Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father, Algemon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving in 1882 to Texas, he worked on a ranch in LaSalle County for two years. In 1887 he married Athol Estes Roach; they had one daughter and one son., he died in New York on June 5th 1910.In this novel, there are many short ficition,every of them are worth reading,but The Gift of the Magi left me a deep impression is, I think this is a good article I have ever read, it is meaningful.In this article, O.Henry used his style of writing narrated a winding and simple story with humorous and a light sad, in western literary area this theme of presenting the gift in the Christmas eve is so ordinary, some of them is wonderful, but I think The Gift of the Magi is the best one.First, let’s looked from the content. the entire article took one pair of poorly love husbands and wives in American presenting the Christmas gift as a middle line, The family housewife in order tosave each coin, she count each one. Even though, entire family only left one dollar and eighty-seven cents on Christmas Eve. The author did not describe much about the poor family, he used one dollar and eighty-seven cents to draw the whole novel, the housewife Della who loves her husband deeply count the money three times, she cried sadly for she could not buy her husband an satisfactory gift. O.Henry was good at using little words to make the sketch and build atmosphere, then the reader will lost in the article, tasting and pondering the character’s destiny. The gloomy atmosphere which was built by one dollar and eighty-seven cents through the whole novel, even when the couples saw gifts, it still contained a little pain. The author had written a poor husband’s and wife’s pain, also enlightens for the people let them obtain beautiful influencing and lead the reader’s interest to a deep boundary when he was describe the character’s thought disposition and plo t. This is the true value of The Gift of the Magi.In order to give her husband an exquisite watch chain, Della sold her beautiful hair though his husband James loved it. James realized that Della had worshipped long for the set of combs, side and back, in Broadway window, he also sold his valuable watch which belonged his grandparents. Della’s hair and James’ gold watch is the most precious property which in this poor family. In order toexpresses the deep sincere love to the spouse, all of them had lost these two at the Christmas eve. Happiness in a twinkling had paid the expensive price, but following is the deep pain. after consider the true life ,O Henry had screened the main plot carefully, made this ordinary theme bright again, gold watch and beautiful hair are the great wealth for the poor family which gain 20 dollar per week, This regret brought astringent feeling, caused each reader’s heart to tremble. This is condensing the real contradiction which the social real life is unable to solve multiplies really because of the writer deep style of writing, cause reader’s pitying with the sympathy, and lead them to a more profound ponder. For a while sentimental impulse Della and James had extremely sacrificed most precious thing for each other. In those only money all-powerful societies, their gift can not regard as wisdom, they lost wealth, but they deepened the precious sincere love. In love and in wealth contradiction they have sacrificed the latter.The novel revelation society reality does not depend on preaching, but depend on the development of character’s emotion. Inspires the reader to touch, feels the character who have the tragedy color. In this society which money can buy love, psychology and sentiment appear the distortion, the sincere deep love between James and Della has filled with writer’s idealism. O.Hery oes not write themoney to ruin love in this society, but wrote the artistic flavor in this gloomy lens, admired the intelligence of James and Della, This is certainly unusual manpower pen, Therefore, the work gives us is not depression and gloomy, But is the beautiful pursue and the attachment, Thus lead the reader to the noble boundary.Processing novel ending, Is O Henry’s most creative contribution, also causes him enjoys the great reputation in American and in the world history of literature. He is good at designing plot theatrically, lays down the foreshadowing, finally appears a beyond expectation result in the ending which makes the reader to feel suddenly sees the light, joy after sorrow, also beside anticipation and in reason, strike the table and shout bravo.O Henry is worth the world famous novelist, his excellent writing technique enabled his novel to have the title of O.Henry.I have read many kinds of articl e, before reading O.Henry’s article, I liked detective book, but after reading this book, I knew short fiction is better, Henry’s humors gave me a deep impression, it will never feel boring no matter how many times you have read.。
the mammon and the archer欧亨利短篇小说分析
• swamp • n. 沼泽,湿地 v. 淹没,陷于沼泽 • forevermore • adv. 永远地 • gallop • n. 疾驰,飞奔 v. 飞驰,急速进行,急急忙忙的说
• unravel • vt.解开； 阐明； 拆散 vi.被解开； 被拆散
• punk • n. 阿飞,朋克 adj. 颓废派的,低劣的
• countenance • n. 面容,面部表情,支持 v.支持, 赞成, 同意 • rattle • vi. 嘎嘎作响,喋喋不休 vt. 使激动,使作响,急促地谈讲 n. 嘎嘎声,急促的谈话 • sire • n. 雄性种兽，[古语]陛下 vt. 繁殖（幼兽)，产生
• eureka • int. 找到了! 有了！ Eureka n. 尤里卡（加利福尼亚西北部一城市） • grease • n. 兽脂,油脂 vt. 用油脂涂,上油,促进 • hokey • adj. 美俚：虚情假意的，ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ作的
The Mammon and the Archer
《财神与爱神》欧亨利短篇小说分析
相关词汇：
• Mammon • n. 贪财，贪欲之神 • archer • n. 射手, 弓箭手 Archer: 射手座 • grin • v. 露齿而笑，咧着嘴笑 n. 露齿笑
• proprietor • n. 所有人,业主,经营者 • aristocratic • adj. 贵族的, 贵族政治的 • clubman • n. 交谊性俱乐部的会员, 花花公子
• jumble • vi. 掺杂, 混杂 vt. 使混乱，搞乱 n. 混杂, 混乱 n. 环形小甜饼 • piratical • adj.剽窃的,海盗的,盗版的 • emblem • n. 象徵, 徽章
欧亨利短篇小说读后感英文
欧亨利短篇小说读后感英文/ueditor/201709/01/5f08737d27743fd4ce5c321c8338512 1.jpg" title="1.png" alt="1.png" width="400" height="369" border="0" vspace="0" />欧亨利短篇小说选读后感英文O.Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father, Algemon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving in 1882 to Texas, he worked on a ranch in LaSalle County for two years. In 1887 he married Athol Estes Roach; they had one daughter and one son., he died in New York on June 5th 1910.In this novel, there are many short ficition,every of them are worth reading,but The Gift of the Magi left me a deep impression is, I think this is a good article I have ever read, it is meaningful.In this article, O.Henry used his style of writing narrated awinding and simple story with humorous and a light sad, in western literary area this theme of presenting the gift in the Christmas eve is so ordinary, some of them is wonderful, but I think The Gift of the Magi is the best one.First, let’s looked from the content. the entire article took one pair of poorly love husbands and wives in American presenting the Christmas gift as a middle line, The family housewife in order to save each coin, she count each one. Even though, entire family only left one dollar and eighty-seven cents on Christmas Eve. The author did not describe much about the poor family, he used one dollar and eighty-seven cents to draw the whole novel, the housewife Della who loves her husband deeply count the money three times, she cried sadly for she could not buy her husband an satisfactory gift. O.Henry was good at using little words to make the sketch and build atmosphere, then the reader will lost in the article, tasting and pondering the character s destiny. The gloomy atmosphere which was built by one dollar and eighty-seven cents through the whole novel, even when the couples saw gifts, it still contained a little pain. The author had written a poor husband s and wife s pain, also enlightens for the people let them obtain beautiful influencing and lead the reader’sinterest to a deep boundary when he was describe the character’s thought disposition and plot. This is the true value of The Gift of the Magi.In order to give her husband an exquisite watch chain, Della sold her beautiful hair though his husband James loved it. James realized that Della had worshipped long for the set of combs, side and back, in Broadway window, he also sold his valuable watch which belonged his grandparents. Della’s hair and James’gold watch is the most precious property which in this poor family. In order to expresses the deep sincere love to the spouse, all of them had lost these two at the Christmas eve. Happiness in a twinkling had paid the expensive price, but following is the deep pain. after consider the true life ,O Henry had screened the main plot carefully, made this ordinary theme bright again, gold watch and beautiful hair are the great wealth for the poor family which gain 20 dollar per week, This regret brought astringent feeling, caused each reader’s heart to tremble. This is condensing the real contradiction which the social real life is unable to solve multiplies really because of the writer deep style of writing, cause reader s pitying with the sympathy, and lead them to a more profound ponder. For a while sentimental impulse Della and James hadextremely sacrificed most precious thing for each other. In those only money all-powerful societies, their gift can not regard as wisdom, they lost wealth, but they deepened the precious sincere love. In love and in wealth contradiction they have sacrificed the latter.The novel revelation society reality does not depend on preaching, but depend on the development of character’s emotion. Inspires the reader to touch, feels the character who have the tragedy color. In this society which money can buy love, psychology and sentiment appear the distortion, the sincere deep love between James and Della has filled with writer’s idealism. O.Hery oes not write the money to ruin love in this society, but wrote the artistic flavor in this gloomy lens, admired the intelligence of James and Della, This is certainly unusual manpower pen, Therefore, the work gives us is not depression and gloomy, But is the beautiful pursue and the attachment, Thus lead the reader to the noble boundary.Processing novel ending, Is O Henry’s most creative contribution, also causes him enjoys the great reputation in American and in the world history of literature. He is good at designing plot theatrically, lays down the foreshadowing, finally appears a beyond expectation result in the endingwhich makes the reader to feel suddenly sees the light, joy after sorrow, also beside anticipation and in reason, strike the table and shout bravo.O Henry is worth the world famous novelist, his excellent writing technique enabled his novel to have the title of O.Henry.I have read many kinds of article, before reading O.Henry’s article, I liked detective book, but after reading this book, I knew short fiction is better, Henry’s humors gave me a deep impression, it will never feel boring no matter how many times you have read.欧亨利短篇小说选读后感英文A poor husband and wife to each other in time to send holiday gifts andgone to great pains to present the final show no use:to sell a gold watch forhis wife bought a comb,a hair cut for her husband bought a watch chain root.Nickwas The Gift of the Magi, the plot is not complicated,the authors used thecoincidence of suspense and make the uncomplicated plot is full of changes andattractive:the advent of Christmas,a pair of husband and wife at the expense ofthe poor own the most valuable The other things to buy a useful gift is nolonger a story of suspense set of circumstances and coincidence to the readersto look forward to unexpected and a sense of feeling in order to praise thepurity of the heroine s love,reflects the human side of the United States.O.HenrySaer Dan said: What is love,love is boundless tolerance,some things canbring joy.Love is the goodwill of the unconscious,of the total self-forgetting.Novelist O.Henry The Gift of the Magi Told the true meaning of love.A coupleof small Christmas comes,the two sides are well-prepared not to find a gift forher husband Jim to his wife s hair with a comb,to sell his gold watch,bought acomb,his wife and Germany In order to pull her husband s gold watch to selltheir hair,bought a watch chain,when they gift each other,found themselves readyto present the other side is not needed,not a matter of fact,they have been morethan a comb and watch chain precious gift - Love.Some people have said that the true meaning of love is given and notobtained.In the novel,the heroine la sobbed several times,but this is not theaggrieved tears,but tears of confusion,she did not know what to give her husbanda Christmas present to send her money is too little less,a total of Only sevenangle of 11 cents a piece,which she would like to buy and that s the price ofgold watch chain far worse,how to do this Leila her down,crying,she had decidedto bring her to work with the Greek Pakistan s jewelry looks beautiful hair soldonly able to buy a watch chain that is also why herhusband Jim in order to buya la comb,and that piece of King Solomon is jealous enough to blowing a beardstare of a gold watch sold Before they buy a set of combs.Some people maysay: What a pity ah! But more people in envy: good people!More than happy!Wa Xifu love in the show such a point of view:Love is the highest stateof each other s well-being for their own well-being.Jim and truly la this point,this is a comb la favorite for a long time butshould not have to drive things,the watch chain is Jim phase for a long time butdare not wish for anything,in order for them to the other side The desire toachieve,give up their most precious things,this is how the realm of high-ah!Thattheir sincere love is pure merit serious consideration.The world needslove,dedication,we also need to love in the hearts of each should be There islove,not only for themselves,other people,their life should be so.A spring sowing,harvesting spring,gave us love it!Let love be the maintheme of our lives。
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Reaction to an Article——Short Stories of O. Henry O. Henry is a nice master of short story at the twentieth century in America. His unique sense of humor is full of depression and sad emotions. Due to this kind of bitter laughter, we could feel exaggerated, cynical, witty and humorous when we read them.Throughout O. Henry’s work, the plot develops unexpectedly at the end of the story. When the readers feel dismayed, they actually believe that the author really gives a reasonable end of the story. It’s quite fantastic. Henry is also good at observing things and focus on details, which makes his writing lively. Anyhow, “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Last Leaf” give me an impression mostly.The Gift of the Magi mainly tells the story that the day before Christmas, poor Della want to give her husband Jim a surprise. However, she only had one dollar and eighty-seven cents. She knew that the little money was not enough to buy a nice present. So Della sold her long, beautiful hair which fell about her shoulders “like a cascade of brown waters”. Then, Della looked all over the shop, finally buying a platinum fob chain, which can be matched with Jim's watch. But, Jim wanted to surprise Della as well. He sold his proud gold watch and bought her a set of bs that Della had watched long in a Broadway’s window. After reading this article, it really gives me a big shock. In this story, the main characters all lost their most valuable things——Jim’s golden watch and Della’s beautiful hair. Behind this, I saw they loved each other deeply. The love in their family letting me feel that cold Christmas Eve has be e the warmest heaven just because of their gifts. It is so selfless that that they can sacrifice their most valuable things in order to give each other the best gift.I learned how to respect others’ love and how to love others. With this kind of love, mutual understanding between man and woman could full of trust and affection. I firmly believe that the world will have a better tomorrow as long as our hearts full of love.The story The Last Leaf described a young couple of good friends Sue and Joanna, who“found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that they joint studio resulted”. Unfortunately, an unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, spread in the in that city and Joanna got it seriously. One day afternoon, Joanna was desperately looking out of the window and was counting the leaves on the ivy tree. She firmly convinced that she would leave the world after the last leaf fell. She hadn't any passion for the future life. Sue has no other better way but to ask help from Mr. Behrman, an old poor artist who lived on the ground floor beneath them, was a failure in art. He has always wanted to paint a masterpiece, but had never begun it. At the beginning, he was very scornful about this frustrated girl who was giving up her life after hearing of the last leaf story from Sue.Actually,in this old man's feeling inside, he earnestly wanted to save this poor and young girl. He painted the last vivid and lovely leaf throughout a dreadful night. Finally, this masterpiece has been pleted and Joanna was full of hope again. However, Mr. Behrman died because of the Pneumonia. The story ended here, but, the sincere friendship would never stop forever because it is hovered in the readers’ heart. Let us respect this best art-man——Behrman.Though Behrman died at the end of the novel, such way of Behrman’s death is really surprising. Because we all know, his pneumonia was much worse than Joanna and his death will e sooner or later. Anyways, Behrman saved Joanna in a silent and artistic way, which truly shocked me. In O. Henry’s eyes, Behrman was a failure in art, but we might say he was a success in humanity. That’s also why I like Henry’s novel, even though O. Henry did not give Behrman too many words.By the way, I also associate him with my parents after reading The Last Leaf. Our parents breed us and give us their best present. Just like old Behrman, who sacrificed himself, helped Joanna cheer up. Here is also another story. A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to e and lay around it every day. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by, the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day. After a long time, the boy came back.However, in order to live, he picked all the tree’s apples and sold them for money. The boy even chopped off the branches to build his house and used its trunk to build the boat. Finally, the boy returned after he left for many years. He is too old and wanted a place to rest. The old tree shared its roots and gave the last best place to the boy. The boy is like us and the tree is just like old Behrman, our parents. So, we shall do all of our efforts to return the contributions to them. In many conditions, O. Henry's novel is so attractive and wonderful. With these unexpected but reasonable endings, Henry expresses his ideas pletely—— something reflects the reality of the society. Perhaps, this might be the reason why O. Henry is so famous.Reading Henry Henry's novels, there is always a relaxed but can not wait to feel, is easy, because his story is not heavy, and that can not wait, but also because I always eager to know the truth, Look at this seems to be not logical, unexpected, but reasonable, intriguing end.Among them, the most famous, is "Maggie's gift." In the beginning, the author focuses on the golden watch of James Dillingham Young and his wife, and the hair of Draco. He wrote: "If the Queen of Sheba lived in the apartment opposite the courtyard, one day De la will be the hair loose down, exposing the window to dry, so that the Queen's pearl baby eclipsed; if the basement filled with And when he passed by, he would work out a gold watch, so that King Solomon might be jealous with his beardedeyes. "The couple lived in poverty, but fell in love with one another, The other a Christmas gift, Jim sold the table, buy a b, and his wife has sold his hair, bought a bracelet. At the beginning of this period, I really for the couple grievances, strenuous thought for each other to buy a gift, but became a great irony. The rich can spend as much money, but the poor have to use their most valuable thing to exchange. But as I read, I wrote, "As you know, Maggie is a wise man and a wise man who brings presents to Jesus who was born in the manger, Since they are smart people, there is no doubt that their gifts are also smart gifts, if you run into two things exactly the same, may also have the right to exchange here, I have been awkward to introduce you to the It was not surprising that the two silly children in the apartment suite were not surprised by the plain story, and they sacrificed the most precious thing in their house for the sake of the other, but let us say the last word to the present wise man, The two of them are the cleverest, the smartest of all those who give and receive gifts, like the two of them.Wherever they are, they are the smartest people. Maggie. "Yes, on the face of it, they are most unwise to sacrifice the most precious things of their home to each other. But their love for each other is the price of money, money can not be exchanged for the truth, the Christmas gift is just a symbol, but the rally of love is indeed above the crowd. They can be called Maggie - the spread of love for the world sent the Gospel of the saints. They symbolize this valuable quality, in the author's view, this is the world's most intelligent things.The end of this paragraph, is the European-Henry little end of the ments, but enough to see the author's praise of true love, I believe the world has the truth, the hope of a better world.In this book, I most like, there are "noble liar" series, Jie Pu Peters and An Dai these two liars, in the "precise marriage", "charity mathematics lecture", " Art conscientiousness "and" tiger tooth extraction ", through various exotic methods of deception, and sometimes at the beginning or end, you always thought that the two will do something good while cheating, such as two thousand dollars to Mrs. Trotter To get married, or to do the school, but in the end, the money or to their hands, it is ironic. But in any case, for these two liars, but how I hate it. I think the reason lies in the following passage: "You go to church in your hometown, do worship, and behave like a decent citizen, but you e to Chicago and want to deprive others of money." Those people are the same kind of villains as you want to be today. You know, the people who sell counterfeit money is also a small old, rely on his breadwinner .It is precisely because you these hypocritical citizens specifically want to get something for nothing, only to contribute to the If you do not have them, you have nothing to do. You're going to rob the man selling counterfeit money, and it may take years to study the industry. If he gets the money, you can go to the police, and you get his money, he had no choice but to utter a silent, pawn his coat will be replaced for a change of course, he will take the money, "This is Mr. Tucker'srole, and it is the inner words of Jeppe Peters. Human nature is good, no one is born to be bad, but it is precisely because these want to get something for the hypocrites, capitalists, only to make the poor people are helpless, they are forced by life, forced to cheat. The people they cheated, but also take most of the ill-gotten gains, the two use of greed, good and vanity, indolent mind, with their freedom, money and even life as a bargaining chip, to make a living, for them, What really hateful place? The author of the dark corrupt American society, is the biggest liar, is the source of evil.In addition, there are "flashy", "car waiting time," the two articles side by side, a encounter, the real upper class to hide their identity, the poor have their own illusory into the rich, which can be seen at the time the United States The social atmosphere - money first. This trend is still prevalent in many places, is lamentable. This is the inner contradiction of Europe Henry, on the one hand, he believed and praised the true love of mankind, such as "Maggie's Gift", "Love Dedication", "Bear John Tom's Ancestral Phenomenon" , He satirized the world of things unpredictable, hypocritical cunning side, such as "with furniture rental room" "two Thanksgiving gentleman." In his pen, the bad guys have good side, and the so-called gentleman, powerful people, is the real forces of darkness. Such as "re-life" in Jimmy, "the tiger's mouth extraction" in the hardware giant. This is obviously not consistent with the logic of ordinary people can be read down, look at the munity, this is the truth. Perhaps people marvel at the ingenious writing of Henry Henry, but more of a shock to the dark side of society in which we are looming but no one dares to face it."Police and hymn" should be the text we have learned very ironic, and impressed me a very short story. Holiday is very happy to buy back this book, so when the toilet every day will be more than a pastime content.Europe Henry's novel idea, language, humor, the out e is often surprising; and because of the description of a large number of characters, rich in life, known as the "American life of the encyclopedia of humor."Therefore, his best short stories such as "Sacrifice of Love", "Police and Hymn", "Room with Furniture Rental", "Gift of Maggie" and "Last Ivy of Leaves" Short stories. His words are lively, good at using puns, correct pronunciation, homophonic and old code new ideas, fun, be known as [tearful smile]. He also describes, creates and reproduces the atmosphere, especially the metropolitan nightlife, with precise details.There is a unique art style called "tearful smile". Europe Henry's soul in the novel all cohesion in the end, so that the reader seems to be plain before the witty and humorous description of the sounds, unknowingly entered the author carefully set the maze, until the last , Suddenly, such as electric light flash, before illuminating the previously hidden everything, as if in the reader hide and seek, or in the play masks, to the reader the last surprise."Maggie's Gift" is an interesting article written by O. Henry. It tells the story of Christmas the day before, the poor Delain the apartment wanted to give her husband Jim a surprise, but she only one dollar octagonal seven points, she knew that this money is not enough to buy any good gift, so she put Pride in the brown waterfall-like hair cut down, sold, in exchange for 20 dollars. Looking through the shops, Della spent dollars, and finally buy a simple platinum bracelet, which can be ac panied by Jim's piece of gold watch. Jim also wanted to give his wife a surprise, he also sold the proud gold watch, bought the envy of long-awaited full set of beautiful bs for Christmas gifts.From this article, although on the surface they are very unwise to sacrifice their home each other's most precious things, but I deeply feel that they love each other each other. They can sacrifice their most expensive items, in order to buy the best gift to each other. But the two sides to sell their precious items, then the other party's gift is not suitable for their own, and they do these things, are for the sake of each other, did not consider themselves. It is because they love each other, and is deeply in love with each other, will have such an interesting ending. Europe Henry to the short stories of the United States to bring new atmosphere, his work which has long enjoyed a good reputation, and has the world influence. Love is also intoxicating why the wine, the book can be incense I do not have to spend.。
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ContentChapter1 Introduction (4)Chapter 2 O. Henry ‘s article style--humor (4)2.1 O. Henry ‘s article style (4)Chapter3 Unique O-style ending method (5)3.1 Improbable Coincidence (The Gift of the Magi) (5)Chapter4 The Main Theme of O’Henry’s Works (6)Chapter 5 Conclusion (7)References (8)A Brief Review on O’Henry’s Works摘要：欧.亨利，原名威廉.西德尼.波特,20世纪美国著名小说家，美国短篇小说创始人。
被誉为世界上三大著名小说巨匠，与法国的莫泊桑，俄国的契诃夫齐名。
他少年时曾一心想当画家，婚后在妻子的鼓励下开始写作。
后再银行供职时出现账目问题而入狱，在服刑期间认真写作，并以“欧.亨利”为笔名发表了大量短篇小说。
他的作品情节细腻。
语言诙谐，结局往往出人意料。
出人意料但却符合逻辑的故事结尾以及不拘一格文风在作品中最具亮点给读者留下深刻印象。
而本论文的主要围绕他的著作，如《麦琪的礼物》，《最后一片叶子》，《警察与赞美诗》，分析其故事结尾与语言风格如何达到预想的效果和如何让作者的思想在作品中得到体现。
关键词：文风，欧.亨利式结尾,人性，社会现实Abstract:O. Henry, one of the three most famous short-story writers in the world, enjoys equal status with Chekhov and Maupassant. Exquisite plot, wry humor and twist ending dominate his works. Those surprising but logical endings and article’s style are the most brilliant in all of the highlights. This thesis mainly analyses O. Henry’s surprising but logical endings and style of his famous works such as The Gift of the Magi , The Last Leaf an and The Cop and the Anthem.These O. Henry-style endings impress readers ,and at the same time ,help him express his ideas completely and vividly.So this thesis mainly analyses how O.Henry set the plot to achieve the desired ending effect,and how the twist ending help idea-expression.Key Words: artistic styles, O. Henry-style ending, humanity; social realityChapter1 IntroductionO·Henry is commonly associated with the short story and the masterful ironic “O·Henry Twist”. A prolific writer, O·Henry wrote most often about New York City, where he spent his later years, He has been called “the American De Maupassant”.Years of hardships, vagrancy and prison supplied O·Henry with abundant material for writing. The tragedy in his own life —the bad luck that seemed to bind him —had taught him a chivalrous tenderness for the unlucky, a sympathetic understanding of the underdogs, and this compassion of his is evident in most of his short stories. O·Henry’s stories about New York City —the best of which are included in The Four Million—are his most famous. His works in.The Four Billionaire full of humor. His stories are amusing, flippant, flat and filled with irony and sentiment. Drawing directly on his experiences, he combined realism with a world of his own. Commonly recurring themes in O·Henry’s short stories are those of deception, mistaken identity, the effect of coincidence, the inexorable nature of fate, and the resolution of seemingly insurmountable difficulties separating two love it.Over recent hundreds of years, works of O·Henry’s have been published for several editions, and always attracting a great number of readers. O·Henry‟s writing is seen as straightforward and simple, written in plain language. His stories may rely on a sameness of plot, but the sharp, unexpected twist at the end is still his distinctive trademark today.(田2005:5)As readers, we like O·Henry’s stories very much because we can get much fun from them. Lively characters, humorous style, and the surprising ending which leave us endless thinking, are the main factors to attract and strike us.Chapter 2 O. Henry ‘s article style--humor2.1 O. Henry ‘s article styleO. Henry good at describing the United States in particular people living in New York. His novel, witty language, the result is often surprising; because of the many descriptions of the characters and full of life, as the "Encyclopedia of American life with humor." There are representative collection of short stories, "King and cabbage", "4,000,000" and "the fate of the road." Some of the famous, such as "love at the expense" and "Police and the Hymn," "rent furnished rooms" and "The Gift of the Magi" and "the last piece of rattan leaf" to make his reputation in the world.He is a writer with a unique style, humorous works, humorous wit, vivid descriptions, concise text. Vivid description of things from the profound understanding and extensive knowledge. He was good to observe things and the accumulation of knowledge. Good at capturing life Ironically, while the wealth to the philosophy of the dramatic scenes from the grasp of the subtle characteristics of the image using the language Painted, so that the people of flesh and blood, into the Xu-xu Health.2.2 HumorO. Henry once wrote: "the nature of my jokes is amiable, irony, and never make someone angry." This is his opinion of his humor, his satire, but again not ironic.he is on the basis of goodwill, and often contain the true meaning of life in accessible short stories . And another effect is that this kind of humor played down the tragic role, so readers are more likely to accept. In addition to the humorous irony, O. Henry is good at capturing the ironic and aboundin life philosophy of dramatic scene, with the characteristics of writing outline of cartoon characters, the plot of the chrono set at the same time, the ending with unexpected knot,All this make readers in dismay want to find the deep connotation of the story, make the reader have to exclamation story of fair and reasonable, idea of exquisite. In addition to unxepecting ending ,the sequence in the novel text became O. Henry another feature of the nove.In O’Henry’s short story “The Cop and the Anthem”, he ma kes use of the vocabulary mistake and hyperbole not only endowing figures with fresh image but also obtaining definite humorous effect. It’s a concrete display of the comedic writing style and at the same time it hints at the tragic fate of the protagonist.There is such a paragraph in the article:But as Soapy set foot inside the restaurant d o o r the head waiter’s eye fell upon his frayed trousers and decadent shoes. Strong and ready hands turned him a b o u t and conveyed him in silence and haste to the sidewalk and averted the ignoble fate of the menaced mallard.Soapy’s f irst “long for being arrested” plan i s to eat extravagantly in a luxurious restaurant—“a roast duck is almost enough!” But as he sets foot inside the restaurant door, the head waiter’s eye falls upon h i s“decadent shoes”. Decadent is always used to d e s c r i b e life style or consciousness concept. The author uses it to describe Soapy’s broken shoes and exaggerates the actuality of that broken shoe to a laughable extent. Then the author also uses the humorous remarks “turn round that r o a s t duck’s nearly being killed fate “to indicate Soapy’s hope “to eat gratis is vanished.”Chapter3 Unique O-style ending methodO. Henry's trademark is the surprising ending that each of his stories contains. He sets a story moving in one direction, and just when the reader is convinced of the general direction of the narrative, the story will be completely reversed.This kind of expected but reasonable ending which called O.Henry’s ending may be a litt le sorrowful but it still gives the readers some hope,which is so-called “O.Henry’s humor(smile with tears)”And if we look back to the total story, the ending seems logical and plausible. As a “plot-maker”, and designer of incident, he is an amazing geniu s. No one can do better than him to holds the reader in “suspense”More than that, the reader scarcely knows that he is suspended until the very close of the story. Just as turns on the lights and the whole tale is revealed in its entirety. He uses this device of dramatic and humorous effect in the short story collection The Four Million which including “The Gift of the Magi ”, and “The Cop and the Anthem”“the Service of Love”“The last Leaf.”He often stresses on something important but not the most importan t in his works.The most important part always seems to write incidentally,which been the most circumscriptive reader may if more it.When the stories end in a totally unexpected but reasonable way ,we can do nothing but cheer for O.Henry’s literary talent.3.1 Improbable Coincidence (The Gift of the Magi)The novel“The Gift of the Magi” is about a young couple that is short of money but desperately wants to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unknown to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy platinum as the chain for Jim's watch; unknown to Della, Jim sells his most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's hair. In the end ,both gifts became useless——short-haired Della got a comb andJim got a chain for an already-sold watch. What a surprising coincidence! However, when we look back, we can find that O.Henry had already given us some suggestions.”Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim’s gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. The other was Della’s hair.” This description is related to how they got the money for gifts and what they bought for each other. The author used a casual and vague tone deliberately so that few people would think over its meaning before seeing the ending. So the ending turns out to be unexpected but reasonable.This coincidence is filled with complex emotions. People feel touched by the long lasting true love between the young couple and at the same time ,pity for them for their “unwise” gifts and their cruel bitter life.Though confronted with cruel reality and dull daily routine, Della and Jim can never change their eagerness toward love. To them the most valuable material possession is so slight and insignificant ,when compared with the spiritual possession of love romance.Perhaps the gifts were "unwise" as the author says, but, as he further writes, "let it be said that of all who give gifts, these two were the wisest.”In Th e Gift of the Magi , we feel so pity that Della has her precious long hair cut. But to our surprise ,Jim has sold the watch to buy the jeweled tortoise-shell combs for her wife’s hair. O.Henry does not end on the note of irony and surprise but gives to what he calls his uneventful coincidence of two foolish children the appearance of a little parable with a significant meaning. The magi , he reminds the reader ,were wise men who brought gifts to the Christ child. As for Jim and Della, the are the magi. This is the ending of the story with O.Henry’s own style.Chapter4 The Main Theme of O’Henry’s WorksIn his works, O.Henry presents the panorama of the American people to readers with ironic and humorous tone. O.Henry is sympathetic with the poor; he praises the human virtues and denounces human defeats. Humanity, as the eternal theme of O.Henry’s works, endows his works with perpetual artistic charm. Human being has many virtues from ancient times to the present. They are kind, brave, honest, hard-working, polite, thrifty, generous, and hospitable and so on. Some people pay a great deal in order to maintain these virtues, they sacrifice their own happiness even life for the lofty love and friendship; they help others without asking for rewards and regard it as a pleasure; they give up their own treasure and chance to others etc. Such people bring love and fine things to the world; they are the ones who endow the world with light and hope.Human beings have many defects, too. Sometimes t h e y are lazy, rapacious, gluttonous, officious, vain, arrogant, shameless, cowardly, impetuous etc. They benefit themselves at the expense of others, they never show mercy and sympathy to the poor in order to make money, they realize their own aims by hook or by crook etc. Their evil deeds make the world vicious. By exposing the human defects and the dark sides of the world, O.Henry wants to awaken p e o p l e’s conscience and deepest desire for all good things, so that people can use their efforts to save and cleanse the whole world.O. Henry creates a short stories which he could dominate the world , and the world as a whole is with light grey. O. Henry won't go to describe the upper-class life :a luxury and dissipation life.In contrary, he makes his writing focuse on a nobody wholives in the small world.From this world , O. Henry have created the world according to his own idea, in which expresses his sympathy as well as hate, reveals a "law of the jungle" in a capitalist society orthe rule of "the great fish eat the small one". All this, we can visit O. Henry's world from the point of O. Henry's works .Besides social deformities, O. Henry didn't forget to find a unique legend in that society. In a corner of the world, there are blooming love, friendship, lofty flowers with a spirit of sacrifice , beautiful soul and divine emotion interweaves the bright side of another society. This is mainly can be found in the part of his representative works. In The Gift of the Magi ,husband and wife be able to give up the things they proud - long hair and watch, for the Christmas gifts. Although ultimately failed to achieve, but the flower of love is brightly blossoming.For example:But on an unusually quiet corner Soapy came to a standstill. Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled. Through one violet-stained window a soft light glowed, where, no doubt, the organist loitered over the keys, making sure of his mastery of the coming Sabbath anthem. For there drifted out to Soapy’s ears sweet music tha t caught and held him transfixed against the convolutions of the iron fench.<The Cop and the Anthem> The hymn of music brought homeless to restart the courage of life, which reflects the virtuous sideof societyChapter 5 ConclusionTotally speaking, in O. Henry’s works, the events of some short stories are arranged in the specific order which exceed reader’s normal expectation to the arrangement of those events in his works, make the ending unpredictable and strange. O. Henry deliberately designs the little tricks with words, for he is a master of language and not its slave. These unexpected but reasonable endings, in many conditions ,are the mos t remarkable parts in the novel. They also engage something profound in the human psyche and reflect social reality in that age . device that would become identified with his name. Wit, irony, cleverness, individuality and local color are also traditional earmarks of the typical O’Henry story. In addition, his warmth of human understanding and sympathy with the “underdog” give many of his stories poignancy. In memory of his great contribution to American literature, American literary circles set up Henry Award in 1918.References[1] Medrick, Fred. An introduction to American literature[M]. 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