欧亨利的小说通俗易懂,其中无论发生了什么,发生在何处,也无论主人公是何等人物,他的故事写的都是世态人情,并且易有浓郁的美国风味。欧亨利的小说在艺术处理上的特点就在于精彩的“欧亨利式结尾”。情节的发展似乎明明朝着一个方向在发展,结果却永远出于意外。
ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY SEVEN CENTS.That was all.And sixty cents of it
was in pennies.Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and
the vegetable man and the butcher until ones cheek burned with the silent imputarion of parsimony that such close dealing implied.Three times Della counted it.One dollar and eighty seven cents.And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing left to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.So Della did it.Which instigates the motal reflection that life is made up of sobs,sniffles.and smiles,with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second.take a look at the home.A furnished flat at $8 per week.It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word On the look Out for the mendicancy squad.
In the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter Would go,and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name“ Mr.James Dilhngham Young.”
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