Hemmingway
Graham Greane, The Invisible Japanese Gentleman:
Plot: A plot. The line that keeps the story going. Order of events – the structure.
-> In medias res – start -> out of context. We don’t know what comes before/after.
Narrator:
-He wants to lecture her. He is a bit protective. Precaucious (gammelklog). He is arrogant. Ambicious. Sexcist. He might know the reality of an author? Gloating in the fact that she fails at the end. Poetic justice. She had it coming, but she doesn’t know that she got it. The story is between the narrator and the reader.
The story takes place in Bentley's, a restaurant in London (perhaps the same as the current Bentley's, 11-15 Swallow Street). The narrator is sitting at a table, alone, and observes a group of eight Japanese gentlemen having dinner together, and beyond them a young British couple. The Japanese speak quietly and politely to each other, always smiling and bowing, toasting each other and making speeches in Japanese which the narrator doesn't understand and describes in patronizing, derogatory terms. Seven of the Japanese gentlemen wear glasses. They eat fish and later a fruit salad for dessert. They provide a mildly farcical and carnivalesque background to the main focus of the narrator's attention, the couple.
Although they sit farthest away, the narrator catches their conversation. The pretty young woman is a writer, about to be published for the first time. She's describing her plans to her fiancé, how Mr. Dwight, her publisher, lauds her talent, and how she wants to travel the world, especially to France, so as to feed her inspiration. She also wants to marry her young fiancé the following week, being convinced that their financial future is settled thanks to the inevitable success of her first book, The Chelsea Set.
Her fiancé is much more cautious and doubts that they should rely exclusively on the young woman's professional prospects and talent. His uncle could help him get into the wine trading business,
Plot: A plot. The line that keeps the story going. Order of events – the structure.
-> In medias res – start -> out of context. We don’t know what comes before/after.
Narrator:
-He wants to lecture her. He is a bit protective. Precaucious (gammelklog). He is arrogant. Ambicious. Sexcist. He might know the reality of an author? Gloating in the fact that she fails at the end. Poetic justice. She had it coming, but she doesn’t know that she got it. The story is between the narrator and the reader.
The story takes place in Bentley's, a restaurant in London (perhaps the same as the current Bentley's, 11-15 Swallow Street). The narrator is sitting at a table, alone, and observes a group of eight Japanese gentlemen having dinner together, and beyond them a young British couple. The Japanese speak quietly and politely to each other, always smiling and bowing, toasting each other and making speeches in Japanese which the narrator doesn't understand and describes in patronizing, derogatory terms. Seven of the Japanese gentlemen wear glasses. They eat fish and later a fruit salad for dessert. They provide a mildly farcical and carnivalesque background to the main focus of the narrator's attention, the couple.
Although they sit farthest away, the narrator catches their conversation. The pretty young woman is a writer, about to be published for the first time. She's describing her plans to her fiancé, how Mr. Dwight, her publisher, lauds her talent, and how she wants to travel the world, especially to France, so as to feed her inspiration. She also wants to marry her young fiancé the following week, being convinced that their financial future is settled thanks to the inevitable success of her first book, The Chelsea Set.
Her fiancé is much more cautious and doubts that they should rely exclusively on the young woman's professional prospects and talent. His uncle could help him get into the wine trading business,