Literary Techniques Used In Katherine Brush's The Birthday Party

The short story "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush is a representation of life in the 1940’s, and so through this short story she uses a series of literary devices such as caricature, antecedents, and change in the atmosphere to convey her objective. The beginning of the story has humorous caricature describing the couple, the author keeps her characters ambiguous and vague so to represent a typical married couple in this era, and drama that comes with the atmosphere shift with the rejection at the end make up a brilliant depiction of life in the time of this story. Brush introduces her characters by describing their physical features so as to use caricature to exaggerate the time period the couple is in. She describes the husband as,