Mammon and Archer
of this story.At first, we are led to believe, like Ellen, that it was the ring
He had only one chance to do it. Aunt Ann gave him a golden ring. They
drove by car in the theatre, but the entire traffic of Manhattan seemed to
have jammed itself around them. There were a lot of different cars. They
were there so long that Richard proposed to Miss Lantry and she agreed.
Next morning Aunt Ann came to Old Anthony and told him everything.
She was very surprised. Aunt Ann thought that it was freak of chance.
She went away. Than Kelly came to old Anthony. He said him
everything. Kelly went to receive his pay for his work. He said that he
overpaid and he wanted to return his money back. Old Anthony was very
happy that everything was ok. He was glad that his son was happy. With
great pleasure he gave that man his money.
The title of this story is metaphorical.
Mammon is the God of riches and the symbol of wealth;
The Archer is a symbol of love.
The theme of this story is an eternal opposition between money and
love!!!
The main idea of this story the problem of wealth (money) and feelings
(love).
The message of the story is Money never can buy love and happiness.
The Conflict:External conflict is a conflict between father and son. Old
Anthony thinks that money can do everything, but his son has opposite
opinion.
Internal conflict is a conflict of feelings and emotions of both heroes. In
reality old Anthony love his son very much, that`s why he tries to help
him, he can buy everything for the happiness of his son. Richard can`t
understand his father, but he loves him too.
The climax of this story we can find in the end, when we see dnouement
that led to the successful engagement. "A little emblem of true lovea
little ring that symbolized unending and unmercenary affectionwas the
cause of our Richard finding his happiness." The day after the traffic
jam, Kelly shows up to receive payment for something and tells Anthony
that he will need to be paid more: "I had to go a little above the estimate.
I got the express wagons and cabs mostly for $5, but the trucks and two-
horse teams mostly raised me to $10." As Kelly goes into greater detail
about what he is being paid for, the reader realizes that Anthony paid
Kelly to create the traffic jam. Says Kelly, "It was two hours before a
snake could get below Greeley's statue." With this surprise ending, O.
Henry's readers have the sudden realization that Anthony did have a part
to play in the success of Richard's engagement.
StylisticDevices:
The title of this story is Metaphor. The author tries to show us a
difference between money and love.
a fat boy without any clothes on shooting arrows around with a bow the
author says it with a part of irony. Like a gray-haired angel that had been
left on the earth by mistake simile + irony. looking like a grey-haired
angel- simile.
Epithets: true affection,quaint ring,soft meadows, true love, piratical
adventures, Gold diggings
Hyperbole: Love is all-powerful, thousands of spectators he will have
his house painted red, white, and blue ;He saw a congested flood of
wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars; That night came Aunt Ellen,
gentle, sentimental, wrinkled, sighing, oppressed by wealth; -
enumerations ;