O. Henry's Writing Style

Before I start reading this book,my attention was catched by the author,O. Henry.  O. Henry is a famous writer and is well-known for his writing skills,especially the ending of O. Henry's style.I have read some of O. Henry's acticle before,such as Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking and The Road of Destiny.And the sense of humor,the vivid analogy showed in his works left me deep impressions.

    In The Girl and the Graft,we can also find  that O. Henry did  his writing in his own writing style.The article is filled with humor and vivid analogies.For example,when talking about men's unequal treatments towards men and women,his said"A man will shell out his dust to another man free and easy and gratis. But if he drops a penny in one of the machines run by the Madam Eve’s Daughters’ Amalgamated Association and the pineapple chewing gum don’t fall out when he pulls the lever you can hear him kick to the superintendent four blocks away."O. Henry didn't said that women recived unequal treatments from men straightly,but used a analogy,showed an example.

By using analogies,O. Henry successfully make the sentences vivid and his opinions easy to recive. He was not saying ,but showing something to readers.That is one of the reasons why his articles is so famous.

    The sense of humor also plays a significant role in  O. Henry's articles.And we can find it in almost every corner of the essay.Have a look at how he describe the character “ I looked like a cross between Count Tolstoy and a June lobster ”,full of humor and made the character impressive.Have a look at another passage"“‘Say, you! ’ she’d say. ‘What do you call this—letter to a Hardware Merchant from His Nephew on Learning that His Aunt Has Nettlerash? You Eastern duffers know as much about writing love letters as a Kansas grasshopper does about tugboats. “My dear Miss Blye!” —wouldn’t that put pink icing and a little red sugar bird on your bridal cake? How long do you expect to hold an audience in a court-room with that kind of stuff? You want to get down to business, and call me “Tweedlums Babe” and “Honeysuckle,” and sign yourself “Mama’s Own Big Bad Puggy Wuggy Boy” if you want any limelight to concentrate upon your sparse gray hairs. Get sappy. ’"The woman's words is so humorous that it have the magic to creat the pictures and situations in readers'mind and left them great impressions.

    I am sure that many people have known something about  ending of O. Henry's style,one of which O. Henry is well-known for.At the end of this novel,Vaucross got married with the lady soon after they went to court，and

finally Ferguson Pogue received a scalper’s railroad ticket as far as Kansas City and two pairs of Mr. Vaucross’s old pants,instead of the ten thousand dollars promised.The ending,which is unexpectable but also reasonable,surprised readers as well as leaving them deep impressions，made the article be led up to meaningful afterthoughts.This is why ending of O. Henry's style is so famous.

2015-11-03

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