A Very Short Story Analysis

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A Very Short Story Within ‘A Very Short Story’ Hemingway uses various techniques such as focalization to represent gender. The story is written in the 3rd person ‘He and Luz could hear them below on the balcony’ yet the narrator comes across as being male ‘He thought of Luz in his bed’. Hemingway represents females in two ways, one as being beautiful, gentle and friendly ‘They all liked Luz’, secondly as dirty, useless and heartless ‘A short time after, he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park’. It was also interesting to find out that when rewriting the story in a woman’s point of view, the story is biased towards a male point of view, this fits in with the patriarchal ideology that men are stronger and better than woman. Hemingway also uses pathetic fallacy ‘muddy, rainy town in the winter’ to describe that…show more content…
Only to get a job and be married’ this shows the man determination to marry Luz he is truly in love with her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her even if it means he has to give up all these liberties. However Luz is perceived as careless when she is not ‘willing to come home at once’ to see him. This also results in them having a quarrel which could suggest that women are argumentative and indomitable to get their way. Luz is also seen to not think much of love as she describes her relationship with the man as ‘only a boy and girl love’. A Very Short Story also ends dramatic downfall as the man contracts ‘gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park’. Placing the man in a vulnerable position and portraying that Women are evil, yet here the woman has the higher status as she is the one giving the
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