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The art characteristics of The Cop And Anthem

Abstract:

O. Henry (1862-1910)一pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, is one of most famous critical realistic novelists in America. He is known with Maupassant and as the three greatest short story masters in the world and is hailed as the“Father of Modern American Short Story”by some critics. His humorous depiction,surprising denouement, themes of human world have been studied by critics and literature fans at home and abroad from the perspective of critical realism or struchiralism.

Many short stories of O. Henry feature unimportant people who live at the bottom of the society mainly with the theme of people doing good deeds though the plots are different. It is not difficult to find out the archetypes of these characters under O. Henry's pen by

careful study. Jim in The Gift of the Magi who is young and a lot in his life embodies the passion of Jesus Christ. Raidler in the story hygeia at the Solito could represent the charity of Jesus. The old artist Behrman in the Last Leaf epitomes the sacrifice of Jesus. From the marshal's words and acts in Hearts and Hands, we find the archetype of scapegoat. In the story of Roads of Destiny, three different roads lead to the same destination, presents us two relevant biblical themes- death and paradise lost. James in The Marionettes is a doctor meanwhile a thief, the narrative structure of his experience from degeneration to repentance then to redemption, is the typical Biblical U-shaped narration. From the title of the short story The Cop and the Anthem, we can find the element of the Bible,and 0. Henry's appreciation of Christianity and his wishes that religion may save people could also be traced between the lines.

The Cop and the Anthem s is the

representative novel which created by the twentieth century famous short story writer O. Henry’s , and this novel is the important of its overall style. In this short story, the author uses humor and irony of the comedy technique loss reveals the absurdity of human society to the people’s powder god of pain from the tragic theme.

There have been many studies about The Cop and the Anthem s. The research chooses one of O. Henry’s novels The Cop and the Anthem as an example. The major findings are as follows:

The stylistics characteristics in selected novel are metaphor of verbs, tense and aspect, and rhetoric devices, which make O. Henry’s expressions more vivid and be easier to understand. From the aspect of interpersonal function, there are two properties in the selected novel, including mood and modality, which can put an emphasis on the objective facts Soapy has experienced.Further more ,stylistics properties