Literary Techniques Used In Katharine Brush's The Birthday Party

"The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush is a story in which shows how there is more to everything than what it looks like, Brush uses literary devices such as imagery to express how some people in a relationship can be really happy but aren’t, atmosphere to assert how the characters evening went from being delightful and intimate to catastrophic and bitter, and metaphor to indicate how

Katharine Brush uses imagery to create a vivid picture of how happy it all starts to be. It says, "... in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake with one pink candle burning in the center." "The pink" and "glossy" creates the picture of a happy dinner.

The atmosphere used in "The Birthday Party" helps the reader understand how . It says "... I saw him say something to her under his breath_ some punishing thing quick and cut and unkind." The atmosphere after the cake becomes tense and angry towards the wife causing her to cry.
Her best hat is described as gay, other known as happy. The gay hat is a metaphor to how something can look wonderful but in the inside it's bad although it make look gay, cheerful, and functioning, sometimes there is a woman "...crying quietly and heartbroken, and hopelessly all to herself, under the gay big brim of her best hat."

Katharine Brush uses literary devices in "the Birthday Party" to convey her message that nothing is truly what it seems to be. What seems to be joyous occasion is truly a sad tense evening. Brush uses metaphors to describe the setting, and mood in the restaurant , and imagery to create a vivid picture of what is