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.。
《欧 亨利短篇小说选》的读后感英文
《欧亨利短篇小说选》的读后感英文As I finished reading the short stories of O. Henry, I was left with a bittersweet feeling. On one hand, the simplistic language and easy-to-follow plots were a welcome respite from the gripping suspense and complex characters that I was used to. On the other hand, I realized the incredible power of O. Henry in conveying profound messages in such a light-hearted way.It is fascinating to note how all his short stories are interwovenwith surprise endings, which are both ingenious and unexpected. One of the most memorable stories, “The Gift of the Magi” is a perfect example of how his writing can touch the reader and evoke strong emotions. The themes of love, sacrifice, and selflessness are exceptionally portrayed in the story of a young couple who sadly miss getting each other the perfect gift in their attempts to show their love for one another. The gift, however, was not the most valuable thing they had to offer and the conclusion of the story, as always in O. Henry’s fashion, leaves the reader smiling and appreciative of the meaning behind the tale.Another story that stood out for me was “The Cop and the Anthem.” The protagonist being a homeless, well-dressed man who tries his best to get arrested and jailed during the winter season when the nights are harsh and frosty, desperate for a warm bed and three meals a day. The story goes on with the main character's countless attempts to break the law, all of which are immediately dismissed by the police authorities. Finally, as he sits on a bench shivering in the cold, a church bell rings in the distance, and he is struck withan overwhelming urge to become a good, productive member of society. The story highlights the desperation and despair of thehomeless people in the early 20th century and the lengths they had to go to secure basic needs like food and shelter.Overall, what makes O. Henry’s short stories so memorable and unique is his ability to present deep human emotions and experiences through casual and relaxed writing. All the stories are permeated with a touch of humor, insight, and wisdom, which makes them highly relatable and enjoyable. It is easy to see why O. Henry is considered one of the great American short story writers, and the selected pieces of his work that I read have done nothing but cement that opinion in my mind.O. Henry's stories also offer a glimpse into early 20th-century America, with its bustling cities and distinct social classes. His characters, whether they are struggling artists, gamblers, or street vendors, represent the diverse makeup of American society. Through his simple yet lyrical prose style, O. Henry captures the unique rhythms and cadences of American English, making his stories even more accessible and enjoyable.Many of his stories also explore the themes of deception and betrayal, with characters often leading double lives or tricking others for personal gain. In "The Last Leaf," for instance, we see an elderly artist deceive her neighbor into believing that a falling leaf is the harbinger of her impending death. But in the end, it is the artist who sacrifices herself for the sake of her neighbor's health. Such clever twists and turns in O. Henry's tales make them all the more gripping and memorable.A notable feature of O. Henry's stories is his use of dialogue, which is often humorous and quirky. He portrays his characterswith unusual mannerisms and quirks, making them instantly recognizable and endearing to readers. His stories are also well-known for their symbolism and allegory, particularly in their depiction of the American Dream and individualism.In conclusion, O. Henry's short stories offer a unique window into early 20th-century America, capturing the hopes, struggles, and aspirations of its people. His writing style is accessible, often humorous, and always heartwarming. Whether it's the touching tale of the "The Gift of the Magi" or the poignant narrative of "The Cop and the Anthem," O. Henry's stories will continue to inspire and engage readers for generations to come.。
between rounds欧亨利短篇小说分析
主要情节
• 《回合之间》描写一个公寓住房里的各种小市民庸俗、琐碎的生活片断，通篇都是用一 种诙谐逗趣的笔调写成的。
• 房东太太的儿子不见了，公寓里的人各种表现，欢喜冤家麦卡斯基夫妇停止了无休止的 争吵，其他的人有的帮着寻找，有的漠然，最后孩子找到了，原来是虚惊一场，而麦卡 斯基夫妇的争吵又开始继续了。
Between Rounds
《回合之间》欧亨利短篇小说分析
作者简介
• 欧·亨利是其笔名，原名为威廉·西德尼·波特(William Sydney Porter)。 • 美国著名批判现实主义作家，世界三大短篇小说大师之一。曾被评论界誉为曼哈顿桂冠
散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父。 • 他的作品构思新颖，语言诙谐，结局常常出人意料，其中一些名篇如《爱的牺牲》、
• 这篇文章也许情节安排，结尾设置等等和欧•亨利的同类作品相比稍显苍白（结尾处和 情节中都没有带给我什么惊喜），不过值得称道的是本篇文章的语言，十分诙谐幽默， 将两个小市民的形象栩栩如生的在小说中再现了出来。也折射出了社会上普遍存在的现 象，当发现儿子走失后，邻居们有的冷漠观望、有的用于调侃、用作谈资，却并没有人 伸出援手，社会上的冷漠现象在小说中被披露得淋漓尽致，欧•亨利的批判现实主义风 格在本篇文章中得到很好的诠释。
摘选
• “Jawn,” she said, sentimentally, “Missis Murphy’s little bye is lost.’Tis a great city for losing little boys.Six years old he was.Jawn, ’tis the same age our little bye would have been if we had had one six years ago.”“We never did,” said Mr. McCaskey, lingering with the fact.“But if we had, Jawn, think what sorrow would be in our hearts this night, with our little Phelan run away and stolen in the city nowheres at all.” “Ye talk foolishness,” said Mr. McCaskey.“’Tis Pat he would be named, after me old father in Cantrim.”“Ye lie!” said Mrs. McCaskey, without anger. “Me brother was worth tin dozen bog-trotting McCaskeys. After him would the bye be named.” She leaned over the window-sill and looked down at the hurrying and bustle below.
欧亨利作品浅析.英语版
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·Henr y 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 makes 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 first “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 st yle 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 method O. 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 little sorrowful but it still gives the readers some hope,which is so-calle d “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 genius. 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 important 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 gran dfather’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 a nd 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 The 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 that 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 sto ries 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]. Henan University Press, 1985[2] Hudson, Long. O Henry The Man and His Work[C]. New Y ork:Russell and Russell, 1969[3] O, Henry, Heart of the West[M]. New Y ork: McClure, 1907[4] O, Henry, The Four Million[M]. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. 1906[5] O, Henry, 欧亨利短篇小说[6] 李国宁欧亨利式结尾的艺术魅力[7] 赵书颖“含泪的笑”与“含笑的泪”浅析欧•亨利的主题[8] 赵丽，黄春妮欧亨利作品导读[M]. 武汉武汉大学出版社2003 P3[9] 欧亨利四百万[M]. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社，1988。
对欧亨利小说英文版的评价
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对欧亨利小说的评价篇一Reaction to an ArticleShort 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. Henrys 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. Its 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 anice 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 Jims watch. But, Jim wanted to surprise Della as well. He sold his proud gold watch and bought her a set of combs that Della had watched long in a Broadways window. After reading this article, it really gives me a big shock. In this story, the main characters all lost their most valuable thingsJims golden watch and Dellas beautiful hair. Behind this, I saw they loved each other deeply. The love in their family letting me feel that cold Christmas Eve has become 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, whofound their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that they joint studio resulted. Unfortunately, anunseen 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 hadnt 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 mans 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 completed 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-manBehrman.Though Behrman died at the end of the novel, such way of Behrmans death is really surprising. Because we all know, hispneumonia was much worse than Joanna and his death will come sooner or later. Anyways, Behrman saved Joanna in a silent and artistic way, which truly shocked me. In O. Henrys eyes, Behrman was a failure in art, but we might say he was a success in humanity. Thats also why I like Henrys 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 come 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 trees 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 shalldo all of our efforts to return the contributions to them. In many conditions, O. Henrys novel is so attractive and wonderful. With these unexpected but reasonable endings, Henry expresses his ideas completely something reflects the reality of the society. Perhaps, this might be the reason why O. Henry is so famous.对欧亨利小说的评价篇二Reading Henry Henrys 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 Maggies 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 Queens 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 comb, and his wife has sold his hair, bought abracelet. 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 becalled Maggie - the spread of love for the world sent the Gospel of the saints. They symbolize this valuable quality, in the authors view, this is the worlds most intelligent things.The end of this paragraph, is the European-Henry little end of the comments, but enough to see the authors 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 come 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 hisbreadwinner .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. Youre 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. Tuckers 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 socialatmosphere - 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 Maggies Gift, Love Dedication, Bear John Toms 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 tigers mouth extraction in the hardware giant. This is obviously not consistent with the logic of ordinary people can be read down, look at the community, 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.对欧亨利小说的评价篇三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 Henrys novel idea, language, humor, the outcome is often surprising; and because of the description of a large number of characters, rich in life, known as theAmerican 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 Henrys 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.Maggies 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 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 21 dollars, and finally buy a simple platinum bracelet, which can be accompanied by Jims 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 combs for Christmas gifts.From this article, although on the surface they are very unwise to sacrifice their home each others 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 partys 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.第11页共11页。
欧亨利作品及喜欢原因英语作文
欧亨利作品及喜欢原因英语作文Recently, I have been reading the short stories of famous scholars. When I entered junior high school, it takes a long time to read the long stories. Moreover, I always delay my study and annoy my father because I don't know the ending. So I just learned to be good and read one or two articles every night or in my spare time.Maupassant, O'Henry, Balzac and Mark Twain, these people have barely read them. Generally speaking, I prefer O'Henry's short stories. Those endings are often unexpected and with extremely humorous satire. Just take the charming silhouette as an example. It tells about a man who always loves money The miserly old woman accidentally gave a girl a lot of money. Finally, the author revealed the answer - the girl's side face looked like the head on a silver coin. Seeing this, I couldn't help laughing. What a funny reason, what a pungent satire. Just such a wonderful detail will show the old woman's enthusiasm for money incisively and vividly. Perhaps, such a coincidence does not really exist, but this pursuit of money is happening all the time in the real society.Another reason why I like O'Henry is that his articles eulogizing truth, goodness and beauty and the love of the people at the bottom of the society are still full of strange ideas, but they just add warmth between the lines. The most popular nature is Maggie's gift and the last leaf. When I read that the old painter in the last leaf fell ill and died because he painted leaves on a snowy night, my eyes were full of tears. The green of life gave the young painter the courage to regenerate, but also made the kind old man leave. However, this great love and great care for others are the bright spots in this story. When all the great figures are intriguing, flattering and performing a funny play, these people from the bottom give us spiritual washing and warmth again and again.最近一直在读着名家们的短篇小说，步入初中，那些长篇的读着需要冗长的时间，而且对于我这样不知结局不善罢甘休的性格，总会耽误学习，而又惹得父亲不乐意。
欧亨利小说英文读后感
欧亨利小说英文读后感欧亨利小说英文读后感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 theChristmas 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’s interest 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 had extremely sacrificed most precious thing for each other. In those onlymoney 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 inthe 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.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.傲慢与偏见读后感英语版远大前程英语读后感心灵鸡汤读后感英语。
欧亨利最后一片叶子Behrman英文评论论文thelastleaf
欧亨利最后一片叶子Behrman英文评论论文thelastleaf第一篇：欧亨利最后一片叶子Behrman英文评论论文 the last leaf Behrman in The Last Leaf-----from O.Henry洪剑 201001401103 旅游管理 040When a dying lady was looking out the ivy vine1 through the window, whose leaves were falling , she desperately thought “if the last falls, I must go”2.The old painter sacrificed his life to paint a green ivy leaf onto the brick wall ,when the real last fell.One died and one lived.No one could deny that piece of ivy leaf saved everything about love，nobility and greatness.The old man was just Behrman in O.Henry’s novel The Last Leaf.In O.Henry’s eyes, Behrman was a failure in art3but we might say he was a success in humanity.Actually he ever set his mind to accomplish a surprising masterpiece and even prepared to be proud of it;Well , his masterpiece did not appear until the death approached.Otherwise, he lived by being a model for some poor painters like him and drunk all day along.That’s the first impression which Behrman gave us at the middle part of the novel.As a matter of fact, Behrman represented a small shadow of American West people that seek fortune in 19th century.O.Henry was also born in a doctor family, which made him informed of the difficulties the poor had met.And we could discover many familiar roles in his novels, like Soapy in The cop and the Anthem , John Adair in A Municipal ReportJim and Della in The Gift of the Magi.As a loyal reader to O.Henry ,I guess these characters appearing in his novels might be someone he knew or heard, might be his friends or himself.At least these roles reflected O.Henry’s real voice into his mind.For some reasons, O.Henry had been in prison for 3 years duringwhich he made his famous novel The cop and the Anthem.T o some extent , Soapy’s painfulness was O.Henry’s.When he offered to get in the jail, it was refused;When he washed his brain and decide to live a common life he wanted, he was caught with no reason.This ridiculous result conveyed a great joke of American society.Now back to the old painter Behrman, O.Henry did not tell how he helped Johnsy, how he painted his masterpiece and why he chose to do it and readers knew it from the conversation between Sue and Johnsy as follows: “I have something to tell you, white mouse,” Sue 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.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 4Behrman died at the end of the novel.Such a kind of way declaring Behrman’s death may mot surprise us, because we all know, his pneumonia was much worse than Johnsy and death will come sooner or later.Anyways, Behrman saved Johnsy in a silent and artistic way, which truly shocked me.That’s also why I like this character Behrman and this novel, even though O.Henry did not give him too many words.Perhaps, this writing style might make this character greater and stand out in the other side, I think.That last leaf never means the last life.Behrman was like a doctor more than a painter.It cured Johnsy’s pneumonia and gave her a strong courage and great hope to hold on.What agreat value his masterpiece had made!Meanwhile, Behrman seemed more alive than dead.We could say, Behrman did not only save a person’s life, but successfully saved an American dream for all the people who seek freedom and peace.Behrman died in the right way;He also taught us a lesson named “what’s humanity and where it lies”.That’s w hat his masterpiece brought us here and now.As is mentioned, Johnsy’s dream was to paint the Bay of Naples before she passed away.I could not imagine whether it had been realized or not.However,I was sure of Behrman’s--------the last leaf and the lasting life.Reference:1.vine n.藤；葡萄树；藤类植物22012/5/1932012/5/194王旭红编译2005 大连理工大学出版社《美国短篇小说精选》127(正文共计723字，其中引文120字)联系方式：*******************第二篇：最后一片叶子欧亨利《最后一片叶子》欧亨利在华盛顿广场西边的一个小区里，街道横七竖八地伸展开去，又分裂成一小条一小条的“胡同”。
对欧亨利小说的评价英文版
对欧亨利小说的评价英文版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 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 comb, 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 comments, 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 come 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'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 community, 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.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 theauthor 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 enoughto 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 combs that Della had watc hed 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’sgolden 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 become 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 womancould 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 savethis poor and young girl. He painted the last vivid and lovely leaf throughout a dreadful night. Finally, this masterpiece has been completed 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 come 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 come 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 usedits 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 completely—— something reflects the reality of the society. Perhaps, this might be the reason why O. Henry is so famous."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.EuropeHenry's novel idea, language, humor, the outcome 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 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 for20 dollars. Looking through the shops, Della spent 21 dollars, and finally buya simple platinum bracelet, which can be accompanied 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 combs for Christmas gifts.From this article, although on the surface they are very unwise tosacrifice 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 witheach 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 alsointoxicating why the wine, the book can be incense I do not have to spend.感谢您的阅读，祝您生活愉快。
欧亨利的个人及作品英语介绍
欧亨利的个人及作品英语介绍O.Henry’s writing stylesO.Henry is one of the American famous short-story writers. His novels expose the darkness of capitalism from different angles, describe the difficult life of lower class, praise their sincere friendship, love and desire to blessed life. He always write a comedy ending to express deep social meaning, serious social reality and higher level. Furthermore, it points out the inevitability.As we al l know O.Henry’s ending is always unexpected. He will suddenly change the inner world of the figures in an unbelievable way, or reverse the fate of the hero. In most time, it will make people feel in track, but the majority will think it reasonable after a while, such as “The Cop and the Anthem”. In the passage, Souby wanted to be in a prison so he made troubles outside. However, his hopes always were defeated. When Souby was reclaimed by the Anthem and decided to live a new life. Unfortunately, policemen put him into prison on some trumped-up charge. When all people assume he will be safe through life, policemen took him to a court. This is a typical O.Henry’s ending, which puts people into a dark hole with thinking deeply. And yet O.Henry just use this way to reflect the reality of being unable to distinguish the good from the bad.The artistic effects of O.Henry’s ending does not always appear in the end. For example, there are two plots in the “The Cop and the Anthem”. One is that Soupy molested a woman, but in an opposite manner, the woman molested him. The other is that Soupy took away a cus tomer’s illegal umbrella. Both a simple and attractive woman and a well-dressed customer give readers a decent feeling, but in fact, they are not the people whatwe are thinking. I believer everyone will think it is incredible like me. Only if we think carefully is it normal. After all, those people really exist in our society. Is everyone in upper-class noble, kind and well-behaved? Of course not, someone just put their dirty behaviors under their beautiful mask. In order to express the inner dirtiness, O.Henry had to decorate a lot in the passage. Although what it is isn’t as how it is, in short, it is reasonable. O.Henry’s ending exposed the public morals going from bad to worse of capitalism in the humors.。
欧亨利短篇小说的主题思想和语言特点-英文-
大众文艺58day forward, Buck lived for that man. After being with this man for quite some time, Buck started to hear a call from far away. He started paying more and more attention to this call. He went out for days at a time searching for its source. This call was the call of the wild. He had a will to go off and be with other dogs .He felt the urge to be freeform man and catch his own food. One day, Buck finally left for good. He was excepted by a pack of wolves who treated him like a wolf himself. And so the transformation was complete. Buck had changed from a dog, to a beast of nature. Bibliographies [1]London Jack. The Call of the Wild.[M]New Y ork: Airmont PublishingCo.Inc,1964.[2]Pizer,Donald.American Realism and Naturalism.[M]Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press,2000.[3]The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,15th ed.1993.[4]蒋承勇(主编).欧美自然主义文学的现代阐释.[M]上海：复旦大学出版社,2002[5]柳鸣九.自然主义大师佐拉.[M]上海：上海文艺出版社,1989作者简介孙海晶（1983年-），女，满族，河北省遵化市人，北京第二外国语院，英语专业O’Henry, one of the three most famous short-storywriters in the world, enjoys equal status with Chekhov and Maupassant. His short stories are famous for its unexpected ending, as well as their exquisite conception. O’Henry’s sympathy for the poor social underdogs, his eulogy of human virtues.es and exposure of human evils are highlighted as the keynote of his works. Humanity endows his works with perpetual artistic charm. His short stories are typicallyAmerican, portraying various types of people in the UnitedStates.1 The Main Theme of O’Henry’s Works1.1Human Virtues In 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 w orks, 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.1.2 Human Evils Human beings have many defects, too. Sometimes they 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 people’s conscience and deepest desire for all good things, so that people can use their efforts to save and cleanse the wholeworld.2 Features of Language of O’Henry’s Works2.1 Figure of Speech2.1.1 MetaphorIn O’Henry’s writings, metaphor is another feature which is worth mention.” A symbol differs from a metaphor in that its application is left open as an unstated suggestion, whereas the metaphor ties a concrete image to an identifiable abstract quality. ”The ima ge in metaphor represents specific meaning. But the symbolic imageremains indeterminate in its possible meanings; it is usually a substantial image in its own right, around which further significances may gather according to differing interpretations. The metaphor under discussion here does not mean that as a rhetorical device or figure of speech, though the metaphorical sentences as wonderful as the one “Manhattan,the night-blooming cereus, was beginning to unfold its dead-white, heavy-odored petals ”tee m in O’Henry’s short stories. What is to be probed is the metaphor exploited as a skill in story-writing. In the third branch of Roads of Destiny, the hero David Mig not is a shepherd, but he is too indulged in writing poems to take enough care of his sheep. The flock steadily grows smaller and his wife keeps on complaining. Then one of his friends introduces him to a learned man called Georges Bril, David asks Monsieur Bril to read his poems, because he wants to know if he shall write more or give his attention to his sheep. When Monsieur Bril has read all the verses, he concludes that David has no talent for poem-writing. Inorder to tell the harsh truth in a mild way,he asks Davidto look at the crow in the tree. Instead of commenting on the poems directly, Monsleur Bril praises the crow that is content with his lot. In this metaphorical way he advises David tactfully not to try to write poems any more. David sees the point and feels discouraged. He goes back home and thrusts his poems into the stove. Hearing the rustle of the欧亨利短篇小说的主题思想和语言特点张明洋1刘映雪2（1.长安大学人文学院西安710064 2.沈阳师范大学旅游管理学院沈阳110034）【摘要】欧亨利是美国二十世纪初期最著名的短篇小说家之一。
欧亨利《麦琪的礼物》英文读后感TheMeaningofGift
欧亨利《麦琪的礼物》英文读后感TheMeaningofGiftThe Meaning of GiftO.Henry (1862-1910) was a prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Although his plot is full of coincidence, the surprise ending is his feature and appeals to the reader so much. He is one of three short story masters in the world.(O.Henry, Maupassant, Chekhov)Henry's first collection, Cabbages and Kings appeared in 1904. The second, The Four Million, was published two years later and included his well-known stories "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Furnished Room". The Trimmed Lamp (1907) included "The Last Leaf". Henry's best known work is perhaps the much anthologized "The Ransom of Red Chief", included in the collection Whirligigs (1910). The Heart of the West (1907) presented tales of the Texas range. O. Henry published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime.I chose The Four Million this term. There are many short fictions in this collection,and every of them are worth reading. However, TheGiftoftheMagi left a deep impression on me. I consider itas the most touching novel I have ever read. It is delicate and beautiful. It contains love and tenderness.In this article, O. Henry used his style of writing narrated a winding and simple story with humor and a little sadness. The story is about the young couple, who was short of money but had developed deep affection for each other, wanted to buy their lovers a surprising Christmas gift. Unbeknown to Jim, Della sold her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, which was described as “a brown cascade”“had the queen of Shebalivedin the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out thewindow someday to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts”, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; while unbeknown to Della, Jim sold his own most valuable possession,his watch, which was appreciated as “hadKing Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement,Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluckat his beard from envy”, to buy a set of comb with pure tortoise shell andjewelled rimsfor Della's hair.The young couple sacrificedtheir greater treasures to a gift, but neither had practical need for the other’s gift any more. But in the last paragraph, the author wrote,“But in a lastword to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts thesetwo were the wisest. All who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest.Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.”In this materialistic society, people often use money to measuregifts.They even forget the persons they love and the persons who love them.Nevertheless, whenever people give gifts for their monetary value or physical impressions, the gifts are immediately devalued. When bags of gifts which are packaged delicately in front of us,what can us see except empty and blank? Parents feel happy because of our simple greeting cards in their birthday, or a few words of blessing.These gifts are incredibly simple, but true.We need to care more about others,no matter how much money we have.What our loved one need is how our concerns about him or her. Not only in some important festivals but also in our daily life,don’t niggard to show your love.AlthoughJim and Della were as poor as a church mouse, aslong as they had love, they felt happier than any millionaire.。
A Brief Comment on O’ Henry’s Short Stories 欧亨利短篇小说述评
欧亨利短篇小说述评摘要:作为世界三大小说家之一，欧亨利与契诃夫和莫泊桑齐名。
他的作品因奇巧的艺术构思，出其不意的结尾而著称。
其中歌颂人性的小说是欧亨利文学创作的主流，并且许多作品已经成为了脍炙人口的名篇佳作。
同时也涌现了许多感人至深的经典人物。
表现了欧亨利对人性理想的执着追求。
本文主要分析了欧亨利的写作手法，包括精巧的情节设计，出人意料但符合逻辑的结局和幽默智慧的语言三方面，并在这基础上深刻探讨了欧亨利作品中表现出来的人性的善与恶。
关键词: 写作技巧；善；恶；人性A Brief Comment on O’ Henry’s Short StoriesAbstract: 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. The main stream of his works is eulogy of humanity and his many classical works are notable. This thesis mainly analyses O. Henry’s writing style including technique plot making, surprising but logical ending and humorous and witty tone, then deeply analyses the human virtues and defects reflected in O. Henry’s works.Key Words: artistic styles; virtues; defects; human characterContents1. Introduction (1)2. Unique artistic style (1)2.1 Technique plot making (1)2.2 Surprising but logical ending (3)2.3 Humorous and witty tone (4)3. The humanity of character (4)4. Conclusion (7)Bibliography (9)Acknowledgment (10)1. IntroductionO. Henry, originally named William Sydney Porter, is a distinguished American storywriter. He wrote more than 300 short stories in his life. His stories are full of colorful characters. He creates an original, typically American democratic form of short stories with, at its best, a valuable critical awareness of life and society tellingly expressed through humor. Therefore, some critics c all him “the founder of American stories”. Being gifted with humor and a keen awareness of details, he objectively shows us what America looks like. All his stories putting together constitute a true panorama of American life.This thesis mainly emphasizes O. Henry’s unique artistic styles and the human characters. It includes two main aspects. Part one is on the unique artistic styles. O. Henry is a good plot maker, he shows readers the real life of American people by giving people a surprising but logical ending through a plausible plot making using humor and witty tone which gives readers a new open sight. Part two stresses on the human nature that contains the virtues and defects sides. In a capitalist society, the specific characters are the special society. O. Henry shows people clearly in his works.2. Unique artistic styleO. 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. 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 genius. 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 Ransom of Red Chief ”, “The Gift of the Magi ”, and“The Cop and the Anthem”, “the Service of Love”, “The last Leaf.” He uses compact and vivid language to set a plot and portray the plot through humorous and witty tone.2.1 Technique plot makingThe short story is the one fundamental and self-contained genre in American prose fiction, and the stories of O. Henry certainly makes their appearances in consequence of the prolonged and incessant cult ivation of the genre. As a “plot maker”, he is an amazing genius. No one can better him in holding the reader in “suspense”. More than that, the reader scarcely knows that he is suspended, until atthe very close of the story. O. Henry deliberately designs the little tricks with words, for he is a master of language and not its slave.The typical feature of O. Hen ry’s stories is a twist of plot. His ultimate achievement is to create the twist ending by the plot making and compact structure. He arranges a story moving in one direction, and just when the reader is going to be convinced of the general direction of the narrative, which he takes for granted, the story is completely reversed.For example, in “The Ransom of Red Chief”, two kidnappers, Sam and Bill make off with the little son of a prominent man. According to the general expectation, readers may assume that they will either obtain the ransom from the boy’s father or kill the boy in the end. But the plot is totally different. The boy is such a nuisance that they agree to pay the boy’s father to take him back because they can’t stand him anymore. Although the plot far exceeds expectations, readers appreciate the cleverness of plot situation and ending a great deal while enjoying the delight of reading.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.The suspense in the story is usually employed in the plot. It is the seemingly insignificant characters that finally become the notable figures that rouse readers ponder. In “The Last Leaf”, Mr.Behrman who is only mentioned in only a short paragraph in the middle of the story to show who he is, and two paragraph tell the reader his rage about Sue ’s ful ly thought. The main theme of the story is that Sue takes the last fallen ivy leaf as the end of her life. Before they know the end, readers will no doubt ask some questions. How does Sue’s illness? Why does the leaf stick against the wall? Does the leaf fall down? Does Sue die? Why does the author mention Mr.Behrman? The last paragraph reveals. All suspense dissolves. The leave is painted by Behrman, while Sue lives. But the old painter died in hopeless pain by Pneumonia, or rather, to rescue Sue. He has to withstand tough wind and heavy shower and the life-long masterpiece paid off by his life. When we find the plausibility of ending in the previous passage, when Mr. Pneumonia wais called in, the Johsey scarcely moves, only looking through the small Dutch windowpanes at the blank side of the next brick house, the “blank side” of brick later provides the location for Mr.Behrman’s masterpiece, the description of Mr.Behrman. He is past 60 and has a Micheal Angeo’s Moses beard curling down from the head of a sa tyr along the body of an imp. “Micheal Angeo’s Moses” leaves readers an impression of artistic potential. “Imp” can explain why he was so weak to fight against disease.The compact structure is O. Henry’s outstanding writing technique. Events in the story are closely connected as chains of rings, which make readers eagerly interested in the ending of the story. As soon as the high light of the reverse of plots, the story ends without any redundant explanations. In “The Last Leaf”, the description of Mr.Behrman, the true hero, only takes up 500 words in more than 5000 words. Meanwhile, the story dismisses a part, rousing us readers a great deal of imagination: How can old man, above 60 years old stand on the ladder, drawing a leaf on the wall in the dreadfull y storming night, while his “shoes and clothing were wet t hrough and icy cold.”?Therefore, the main stream of O. Henry’s works is easily perceived: the suspense in addition to wry humor ending is his main rhetoric method.2.2 Surprising but logical endingThe ending of an article has long been considered as a conclusion or just a summary of the whole passage. However, O. Henry illustrates a new way, the so-called twist ending or sometimes the O. Henry’s ending. It means that at the end of an article the mental status or the fate of the character has changed greatly. But the whole passage is suddenly endowed with a great charm because of the ending. The author has your nerves all a quiver until the last sentence. The surprise comes quickly and the story is finished. O. Henry is such a master of the unexpected ending that one must admire his skills.In the story The Cop and the Anthem, Soapy, a homeless tramp, deciding to be sent to the prison on the Island which he called his winter quarter against the rigor and the hunger, attempted to practice several illegal activities for the purpose of “wooing capture”;(O, Henry 2004: 09) but the cop, who stood nearby when Soapy was trying to attract his attention by his anti-law behavior, paid no special attention to Soapy every time, even “seemed to regard him as a king who could do no wrong”. (O, Henry 2004: 09) Developing up here, the story must give the reader the conclusion that Soapy had to go back disappointedly to his home—a park bench. On his way, the sweet music of anthem from the church played by the organist and the beautiful moonlight scenery “wrought a sudden and wonderful change in his soul”, (O, Henry 2004: 10) he made up his mind to “pull himself out of the mire”(O, Henry 2004: 10)and “make a man of himself again”. (O, Henry 2004: 10) Moving like this, the plot is not completely understandable at once. When the reader is puzzled about the use and meaning of growing plot, and just while Soapy was planning his tomorrow’s action for being “somebody in the world”, (O, Henry 2004: 11) an unforeseen plot, and just while abruptly: he was arrested because a policeman thought him doubtful, and the next day he was sentence to “three months on the Island”. (O, Henry 2004: 11) The story stops here suddenly in spite of the reader’s not immediate understanding. But after a moment of consideration, the reader’s surprise turns into admiration for hisastonishing contrivance of tricky ending which reveals rigorously the real facts of reversal between truth and falsehood in capitalist society which confuses right and wrong.2.3 Humorous and witty toneO. Henry, a great designer, is skillful enough to dye some color of pink in a tragedy, or kind of sadness in comedy. O. Henry’s stories are humorous encyclopedia of American life. This means that this work is full of various humors, sometimes even with exaggeration. It fully discloses the essence of American society: the weak are the prey of the strong, which is regarded as the law of the jungle universally. Right and wrong are confused, good and evil are disordered; Materialism and individualism dominate people’s mind. This writing technique makes his work enjoy the fame of “Smile with Tears”.The humorous paragraph describes the congested conditions of a room where the hero and heroin live in the “The Service of Love”, the story tells of an earnest young pair of art students, the Lattabees, who prop up each other’s courage when their funds run out by pretending to have lucked into a steady income from their professional skill in painting and music. But it turns out that Delia’s service has been ironing shirts in a laundry while Joe has been firing the furnace in the same building. Readers are not surprised to find out how precious their genuine love for each other is. Monetarily they were poor, but they are mentally wealthy. We may laugh with tears after finishing reading the story. O. Henry carries an abundant good humor with hum and sees the bright and amusing side of things. O. Henry is not the comic wit that explodes the reader into a huge guffaw of laughter and vanishes. His humor and twist ending are of that deep quality that smiles at life itself and mingles our amusement with our tears.Such examples can be found throughout the story. These sentences seem to be talked about very casually to make the story appear to be a comedy. But meanwhile, we can also feel the sadness and helplessness of the hero Soapy. Readers are seduced by humor language and stories plots step by step, but finally cannot help laughing, but with pitiful tears.3. The humanity of characterAmong O. Henry’s short stories, the eternal theme proves to be the humanity. Whether simple or complex, the mystery of human motives controlled by human nature is exposed. There are good and evil elements in human nature, for the two are often mixed with each other more or less. When the good elements in human nature occupy the predominant portion, man will carry forward his virtues such as kindness, generosity, hospitality, self-sacrifice for love and friendship, helping others without asking for rewards. While the evil things defeat the good in human nature, man willdisplay such human defects as being gluttonous and lazy, rapacious, officious, vain arrogant, cowardly, impetuous etc. The human motives become more and more mysterious and various. When tempted, good man would do evil things; when moved by noble-minded people or touching things, the demon will forsake darkness for light and turn over a new leaf in his life. In O. Henry's world, established figures become boobs and rich men become dunces, while rogues become heroes and down-and-outers become gentlemen.3.1 The human virtuesHuman being has many virtues from ancient times to the present. They are kind, brave, honest, hard working, polite, thrifty, generous, hospital and so on. Some people still pay a great deal in order to maintain these virtues, they sacrifice their own happiness even their life for 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. O. Henry has a great understanding of the trials of the lower class, and he frequently pictures the lives of ordinary people of early twentieth century America with warm and sympathetic colors. These characters are frequently the overlooked: the struggling shops girl, the unsuccessful artist, and the impoverished. Even Theodore Roosevelt said: “It was O. Henry who started me on my cam paign for office girls.” There is no denying that the narratives of humanity by O. Henry have everlasting influence. Although they are poor, leading the life “made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominat ing”,they still think, “If a home is happy i t cannot fit too close.”Most of O. Henry’s stories show that the humble little insignificant people of New York are just as admirable and their lives are as worthy of attention and interest and, as he implies, as respectable as the members of the Four Hundred.Take “The Gift of the Magi” as an example, we will find the ingenuity of O. Henry’s unexpected endings. From that condensation of the charm of human virtues the love-sacrificial theme is shown. It 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. The author arranges the entire plot just to get the readers to wait, to cause suspense, the pleasurable excitement and anticipation of the outcome. From the beginning, the readers keep guessing what Jim and Della will buy for each other, and the coincidence of their gift is the great suspense the author put in his article. And then he gives the answer to the question. Here is the ending: “Here I have lamely related to you the u neventful chronicle of two foolish children ina flat who most unwisely scarified for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in the last word to the wise of these days let it be said tha t of all who give gifts.” (O, Henry 2004: 35) However, the story end comes when Jim reveals that he has sold his watch to buy Dalla her present, from where the poor couple’s love is show. Therefore, O. Henry ends the story artfully, and with deft touches he elicits the reader’s admiration and sympathy for his young couple shows love for each other more than compensates for their lack of money and material possessions. 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 before the spiritual possession of love romance. That is sparkling with fragrant charm.There is another story about sacrificial theme entitled “The Last Leaf”, a warm and tragic tale describing how a dying artist proves as resilient as the last leaf on the wall outside. Sue, a poor painter, attacked by Pneumonia, wanted to turn loose her hold on everything, and go sailing down, just like one of those poor tires leave. But after beating rain and fierce gusts of wind, an ivy leaf still stands against the brick wall, which gives her the hope of living, mak ing her realize that: “It is a sin to want to die”. The ending reveals that Mr. Behrman, a kind old artist dies at previous night by pneumonia, painting the leave on an outdoor vine in the storming night ----in his effort to restore Sue’s will to live. Though the touching ending makes us absorbed in sadness, the readers can still find gleams of hope and desire out of despair. It not only enlightens the girl’s courage for better life but also moves every reader to tears. Those glittering human virtues however counterpoint to the capitalist industrial bourgeoisies’ human defeats, telling us that life is supreme and thus upgrading the theme.By and large, through the portrayal the panorama of a throng of people either of upper class or lower class, O. Henry’s eulogize the specious and precious human virtues.3.2 The human defectsOn the other hand, human beings have many defects, too. They benefit themselves at the expense of others. In order to make money they never show mercy and sympathy to the poor. They realize their own aims by hook or by crook. Their evil deeds make the world vicious. By exposing the human defects and the dark side of the world, O. Henry w ants to awaken people’s conscience and their deepest desire for all good things, so that people can make their efforts to save and clean the whole world. Some people love money than anything else. In “Mammon and the Archer”, Anthony Fuckwell, a retired man ufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall’ Soap, has the greatest esteem for the value of money. “I bet my money on money every time, I’ve been through the encyclopedia down to Y looking for something you can’t buy with it, andI expect to have to take to the a ppendix next week, I’m for money against the field. Tell me something money won’t buy. ” (O, Henry 2004: 113) His son wants to ask for a girl’s hand but there is too little time left. Surprisingly, a fortunately traffic tie-up offers enough time for the son. But the ending discloses that it is the father who makes the accident in order to help his son to win the girl’s heart. The theme of the story come out: confronted with the Mammon even Archer has to be bent his head down. To Anthony and his peers, the only thing worthy of their thought is money. With the ironic rhetoric method, O. Henry ends the story with a fat boy without any clothes on shooting arrow around with a bow. That is pictured Cupid, in a new, unexpected way, thus bringing readers a new sense to the topic “Mammon and the Archer”. This usage of the twist ending adds artistic effect to the person’s character described.In a capitalist society, many people even do evil things against their conscience, so as to earn money. In “The Furnished Room”, the housekeeper, Mrs. Purdy, cheats a young man who is seeking his lover, in order to let him rent the room. Then the young man commits suicide out of despair. At the end, after the young man dies, we find the man’s lover commit suicide at the same rented room. Mrs.Purdy talks about it with another housekeeper in an indifferent tone as if it were only a trifle that could be the topic for gossip over dinner. The society is so doomed by an atmosphere of gloom and indifference that it makes people treat others or even friends without sympathy, equaling to committing murder.In “The Romance of a Busy Broker”, the businessman Maxwell is so crazy about his golden eternal business- make big money against the clock. More than that he even forgets he has married or not. And in a tumult of a preparation out of his work, he asks his wife to marry again. Those twist ending exploses the whole theme of the article. Are the readers to deride the broker or to show sympathy for the broker’s tender wife?The author uses pungent rhetoric methods not only to show us the humanity vividly, but also to enhance the theme: the gluttonous and cruel side of those bourgeoisies.4. ConclusionO. Henry focuses on the poverty-stricken life and spiritual depression of common people. He takes great sympathy on them, with dissatisfaction with the greediness of the rich and the noble. O. Henry is adept at seizing and grasping the typical scenes in life, in which each episode of the life of the characters that had been in dilemma and confronted fatal decision was presented. Through this, he not only chiefly portrays the hero’s mentality but also fully reveals the inner contradiction of life. Finally, the human virtues and defects emerge from the twist ending. That notonly arouses readers ponder about the humanity but also earns O. Henry’s story fame of “smile with tears”. Henry not only widens the experience of his readers, he also restates the verities that exist wherever people continue to strive for truth and beauty in life. The humanity reflected from the twist ending makes his stories at their best an influence for the furthering of those ideals that still tend to command the allegiance of civilized men. O. Henry is the “founder of American stories”. His works are like a mirror of American society at that time. A multiple of reflections are rippling through the years passing by. The plots in O. Henry’s works appear to be nothing special at first glance. Nevertheless, read those to the ending and you will find something unusual out of what seems to be too ordinary. His works are full of depth in portraying an unfathomable humanity of character.In a nutshell, O. Henry’s artistic charms will everlast and be viewed as a perpetual encyclopedia of American life.Bibliography[1] Medrick, Fred. An introduction to American literature[M]. 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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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