Analyzing Katharine Brush's Birthday Party

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In the short story "The Birthday Party", by Katherine Brush, Brush utilizes literary devices to portray the fact that people act heartlessly towards each other. Brush uses imagery in multiple occasions as well as inference. First of all, Brush utilizes imagery to help stimulate one the five senses. The sense that is stimulated is "sight". For instance, the author writes, "The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it..."

Introduction: John’s domination over the Narrator is evident from the beginning of the short story. The Narrator remains unknown and takes the identity of John’s wife not an individual human being. This identity, further explored, becomes her personality because she obeys John’s every command.

Because the way she describes it makes you feel like your right there, knowing the feeling without actually seeing the item. Capturing the reader’s attention to detail bring the scenery closer to understanding and wanting to know more.

This could tell us that his could be new or inexperienced with the feeling of love and what it is like to be in a relationship. Having both stories being told from the man’s point of view only tells us part of the story and leaves us with questions. We have no idea what the women’s thoughts and feelings are throughout the whole story or what they wanted when the story first started. It also makes me wonder how much of the story would have changed if we saw it from the women’s point of view, would we see the same story or would we be seeing a whole new story? What would the story be like if it were told from third person point of view and we didn’t know what was going on through anyone’s minds?

"The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush interprets the cruelty of a man who does not appreciate his wife’s achievement of creating a special surprise. Imagery is included to describe every detail the woman was aware of to make the occasion perfect. Brush’s usage of the literary device serves to convey the purpose in which it shows how the man is a person who underappreciates his wife. Without imagery the story would not be able to present how much time and effort the woman must have taken to prepare the celebration. Katharine Brush's usage of imagery plays an important role in the short story to demonstrate how the man depreciates the woman’s efforts to make him happy.

In Katharine Brush’s short story, “The Birthday Party”, it describes the interaction between of a seemingly untroubling married couple on what should be a joyous event for both the husband and the wife. Brush manipulates literacy devices, like foreshadowing and alliteration, to emphasize her theme of how looks don't reflect the reality of the situation. In order to create an atmosphere of suspense in the short story, Brush utilizes the element of foreshadowing to establish a sense of uneasiness,which contributes the validity of her theme early in the story. Brushes writes,” nothing particularly noticeable until the end of their meal”.

Imagine spending weeks or multiple months planning the right thing to give to your significant other on their birthday. However, when you present them with your gif. You receive malicious comments rather than gratuity from him or her. This leaves you heartbroken and maybe even angry. Katharine Brush writes in her short story, “Birthday Party” about a birthday party gone awry. She explains the events of the evening and even sympathizes with the woman.

In the story the reader gets a feel for what Mollie is experiencing during her day as her husband Gerald. Charlotte Perkins Gilman does an amazing job getting her point across using the third-person limited omniscient point of view. At the end of the story Gerald is now conscious of new views and feelings about women that he never had before. Without Gilman’s use of the third-person limited omniscient point of view the reader wouldn’t have gotten that much out of the

Later when our narrator finally takes control of her own thoughts we get the true picture of who her husband is. We no longer see him in a protective, strong leader and husband. Instead we find the role to be reversed, and we can even see him behaving much like a woman.

This story shows how one person in a marriage could really affect more than there self. In the story the author uses selfishness to really express how it will affect both people in the marriage. The next paragraph will start off how it does

The narrator is totally crushed by the gender discrimination. She longed to be seen by her mother and her grandma. The narrator is heartbroken that her mother loved her brother more than her and failed to notice her. “When she went into Nonso’s room to say good night, she always came out laughing that laugh. Most times, you pressed your palms to your ears to keep the sound out, and kept your palms pressed to your ears, even when she came into your room to say Good night, darling, sleep well. She never left your room with that laugh” (190). Her agony can be easily seen by the way of her narrating. She does not get the affection that she deserves. She really needs the affection from her own mother, but she is not getting it. She compares the love which her mother shows to his brother and herself. This is gender discrimination can be seen with her grandmother too. She hated her grandma as she would always support her brother and find fault with her. Even though what the brother did, no matter what crime. Her mother and grandmother always supported her brother and never supported or showed interest towards

The dialogue between the characters shows that both characters have very ill feelings for each other by the short sentences that author uses. Also, I can feel the strong tension between the wife and the husband due to the way they are talking to each other. Both of them want the baby and the wife refuses to give up the baby when she saw the picture in his bag.

I thought, “What better way to celebrate your birthday, than to be at Disney?” This was one of the reasons I planned it around his birthday, I thought it would make it an extra special trip. When it’s your birthday, you can wear a big button pinned to your shirt that says, “Happy Birthday.” on it and you write your name on it with a Sharpie. Immediately after leaving our hotel room, hotel guests, restaurant staff, the bus driver, people on the bus, staff at the park, other guests in the park, they were all wishing Ian happy birthday. He was keeping count, (or tried to) anyway, as to how many birthday wishes he received that day, he lost track as to the exact count, but it was well over 50. I don’t think he will ever forget his 13th birthday. At the end of the day, Ian said, “This is the best birthday ever, Mom!” I said, “I think I’d have to agree with you Ian.” On his birthday, we spent it at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. We had booked a reservation at the 50’s Prime Time Café, their menu boasted about the prime rib, meatloaf and fried chicken, good home cooking, like your mother’s. When we walked in, we were immediately transported back in time to the 1950’s. The diner had a checkerboard floor, old small black and white TVs everywhere playing shows from the 50’s, vinyl and metal chairs and mismatched metal tables, tacky wallpaper everywhere and ruffled curtains. There were old tin cut-outs of roosters, fish, birds on

The point of view is mainly third person. Whenever Ruby and Jonathan are sharing their thoughts, it is third person, but when the author speaks about the both of them together, it is third person plural. The narrator is omniscient. The point of view creates sympathy for the main characters because it shows their time together and how they came to form a bond so strong, that they fell in love with each other. Even though both characters are already married, the reader sees how they start to develop a relationship in a bad situation. Most times, when people experience something bad together, they bond for life. When the narrator talks about the tension that comes between the couple, the reader can see the thing that dissolves their tension is