Saki_the_open_window_分析

1、THE OPEN WINDOWHector Hugh Munro赫克托赫克托门罗门罗(1870-1916)Pen name: SakiOccupation: Author, PlaywrightNationality: BritishMaster of short stories.Often be compared to O Henry. The Open Windowthe outline of the storyTime1) An October afternoonPlace2) A rural retreat / A restful country spotCharacters 3) A

2、. Mr. Framton Nuttel B. Vera -niece C. Mrs. Stapleton -aunt D. Mr. Stapleton E.Mrs. Stapletons two brothersBeginningRising Action ClimaxResolutionPLOTFalling Action Essential words and phrasesWords:annoy vt. 使生气affect vt. 影响tremble v. 颤抖relief n. 缓解，救助scarcity n. 短缺，不足muddy adj. 泥泞的sympathetic adj.

3、同情的extraordinary adj. 不一般的graveyard n. 墓地Creature n. 生物Phrases:go through 经历a number of 许多make a statement 声明apologize for 因道歉on the matter of 就来说lose ones nerve 失去勇气，吓坏make up 虚构，杜撰Introduction of the main character:Framton Nuttle: a slightly nervous person who is undergoing a nerve cure. His siste

4、r introduced him to visit Mrs. Sappelton in anther town to take a rest. Mrs. Sappeltons niece-Vera: a very self-possessed （镇静、泰然自若）young lady. After some small talks, Vera calls Framtons attention to the large, French window in the room, which is open despite the fact that it is October. And then sh

5、e began to tell her aunts “tragic story”.What is her story? Three years ago Her aunts husband and two brothers They went hunting for snipe with a little spaniel(西班牙猎犬) . They left through that very window, but they never returned because they were engulfed by a piece of bog（沼泽). Their bodies were ne

6、ver found. Veras aunt believes that the men will return one day, that they will enter the house the way they left, through the open window. That is why the window is kept open every evening until dark; “Do you know, sometimes on quiet evenings like this, I almost get a strange feeling that they will

7、 all walk in through that window - 你知道吗，有时候像今天这样寂静无声的傍晚，我总会有一种感觉，那就是他们会从那个窗子里走进来,一想到这里就会让人觉得毛骨悚然” Mrs. Sappleton rattled cheerfully about her husbands and brothers as if they were alive, but to Framton it was all purely horrible. He made a desperate but only partially successful attempt to turn to t

8、alk on to a less ghastly topic.“我想那是因为这狗吧，”那年轻小姐平静的说，“他告诉过我他害怕狗。有一次在印度，他被一群流浪狗一直追赶到了某个公墓里，实在没办法只好在一个新挖的墓穴里呆了一晚上，那些可怕的野狗就在他的头顶上。换成是谁，魂儿也得被吓飞了。”I expect it was the dog, said the niece calmly; he told me he had a terrible fear of dogs. He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere in India by a lot of w

9、ild dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the creatures just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their nerve. Romance at short notice was her speciality. 毫不费劲的随口编个故事是她的拿手好戏。Unexpected endingPlot Analysis:1、unexpected ending2、foreshadowing伏笔3、story within story4、ghost story ele

10、ments“MY AUNT will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very calm young lady of fifteen years of age; “in the meantime you must try and bear my company.” 忍受？ She wanted to check whether there was any possibility that Mr. Nuttel would see through the story about the hunters. If he knew her aunt, sh

11、e would not succeed in her plan to play the trick on him.He was wondering whether Mrs. Sappleton was married; perhaps she had been married and her husband was dead. But there was something of a man in the room.他在寻思着萨普雷敦太太结婚了没，她到底有丈夫呢，还是在守寡。这屋子似乎有种说不清的东西在暗示着这里有男人住。Somehow, in this restful country place, sorrow seemed far away. 在这块平静的土地上不幸的事似乎很遥远。 It was a relief to Framton when the aunt came busily into