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"The Fly" Short Story Literary Analasyis

Expositions

Exposition

The exposition of the story is the introduction to a story, including the primary characters' names, the setting, the mood, and the time.

Macey's Exposition

Macey is an old man who is being cared by his daughters. Every Tuesday, his daughters dress him up and let him out into the city..

Macey's Exposition

Boss's Expostion

Boss's Exposition

The boss is a broken old man whose son died 6 years before this story takes place.

Rising Actions

Rising Action

The rising action of a story is the part of the story where things start to get interesting and the conflict starts to take shape..

Macey's Rising Action

Macey is shown to be sitting in his boss's office and trying to remember something that he thought the boss would want to know. He comments on how snug the room is, and the boss gives him a cup of whisky so that he'll remember what he wanted to.

Boss's Rising Action

The boss thinks about his son for a while until he sees that a fly has fallen into his broad inkpot and is trying to get out. He helps the fly out of the inkpot and watches while the fly cleans itself and gets ready to live again.

The Climaxes

Climax

The climax of a story is when the conflict comes to a head and is usually the most exciting part of a story.

Macey's Climax

Macey, with the help of some whisky, remembers what he wanted to tell the boss. He says that his son is buried quite close to the boss's son in a neatly kept Belgian graveyard.

Boss's Climax

The boss has an idea. He puts his pen back in the inkpot and drops some more ink on the fly. The fly slowly drags itself forward, and redoes his painful task. The boss admires the fly's courage and drops another ink drop on the fly. This time he helps the fly a bit by breathing on it to speed up the drying process. The next time he does it, however, the fly doesn't move.

Boss's climax

Falling Actions

Falling Action

The falling action of a story is the section of the plot following the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story's central conflict decreases and the story moves toward its conclusion.

Macey's Falling Action

The boss sends Macey out and tells Macey that he won't see anyone for thirty minutes.

Macey's Falling Action

Boss's Falling Actions

Boss's Falling Action

The boss tries to help the still fly with his pen. However, it's to no avail, as he discoveres that the fly is dead. He flicks the fly into the wastebin with his paperknife and immediatly becomes positively frightened.

Resolutions

Resolution

The resolution of a story ties the narrative arc together. It wraps up the main story but may still leave a cliffhanger.

Macey's Resolution

Macey heads out of the room for a while. However, he soon gets called back into the room to fetch some blotting-paper, which he leaves to get.

Boss's resolution

The boss calls to Macey for a fresh piece of blotting-paper and tries to remember what he was thinking about before. He passes his hanlerchief inside his collar, but for the life of him he can't remember.

Boss's resolution

Setting

Early 1920's

Britian and Belgium

Setting

Literary Devices

Idiom: "Poor old chap, he's on his last pins, thought the boss." - Pg 1

"Stepping into his shoes" - Pg 2

"Life in Ruins" - Pg 2

Imagery: "It was a little pot, Gertrude says, no bigger than a half-crown" - Pg 1

Anaphora: "Six years ago, six years..." Pg 2

Alliteration: "Simply Splendid" - Pg 2

Personification: "Help, help! said those little legs - Pg 2

Literary Devices

Characters

Macey - Old, forgetful, lost son in war, hardworking

Boss - Forgetful, appreciative, bereaved

Characters and Point of View.

Point of view

Point of View

Third person Omniscient

Theme Statement

Loss of kin can never be truly forgotten, especially with children.

Motifs and Theme

Motifs

Fly, dead, grave, whisky, bravery, boy, daughter, loss, war, death, kill, ink, life, kin

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