THE STANDARD OF LIVING by Dorothy Parker
A. Plot
Ø Exposition is happened from in the second line of the story.
Annabel and Midge had been best friends almost from the day that Midge had found a job as stenographer with the firm that employed Annabel.
Ø Rising action is happen when Annabel find a new game.
Annabel had invented the game; or rather she had evolved it from an old one. Basically, it was no more than the ancient sport of what would you do if you had a million dollars? But Annabel had drawn a new set of rules for it, had narrowed it, pointed it, and made it stricter. Like all games, it was the more absorbing for being more difficult.
Ø Conflict is happened when Annabel and midge have different opinion about their desirability.
Ø I think this plot is kind of open plot, because the end of the story is abstract. There is no significant resolution in the story.
B. The Element of plot
Ø Foreshadowing because the author was giving the shadow how the conflict will develop.
C. Basic conflict
Ø Conflict external (with society, and environment).
We can find their company or office and how they commune with their friend.
D. Characterization
Ø Major: Annabel and midge.
Because Annabel and midge have big rule is this story from the beginning until the end of the story.
Ø Minor: Sylvia
She doesn’t have a big rule in this story. She only has a simple rule in this story. I can find when Annabel introduced the game to Sylvia.
E. Method of characterization
Ø Telling
Annabel and Midge: Arrogant and over confident.
They have same the method of characterization because they are best friends. They also have same jobs in stenographic department. And they always use clothes same as rich people. Actually, I think they are paupers.
F. Point of view
Ø The story uses the third person point of view because the story told that “they and the girls”. And the author not include in this story. He only said “ they or the girls”
G. Setting
Ø Setting of place
· In tea room in the first line of the story.
· Stenographic department the place of Annabel and Midge office.
· Their evenings and most of their Sundays were passed in each other’s company.
· Fifth Avenue the place of the game.
· Shop is the place of silver fox.
· America in 1941.
Ø Setting of time
· Saturday afternoon when they came out of the tea room.
· Every noon when they lunched together.
Ø Setting of condition
· Fun I find when the devil nudged Annabel in the ribs. “Dare you to go in and price them,” Annabel said.
H. The summary of this story
There are two girls Annabel and Midge. Annabel and Midge had been best friends almost from the day that Midge had found a job as stenographer with the firm that employed Annabel. They also have similarities in everything such as behavior and also dream. One day, they have problem because they have different desirability. For the next few days, though the girls saw each other as constantly, their conversation was careful and infrequent, and they did not once play their game. Then one morning, as soon as Annabel entered the office, she came to Midge and said she had changed her mind. She would not buy a silver-fox coat with any part of her million dollars. Immediately on receiving the legacy, she would select a coat of mink. Then Midge’s eye was caught by a shop window. Cool, lovely gleaming were there set off by chaste and elegant darkness. Midge said “I take it back. I wouldn’t get a mink coat the first thing. Know what I’d do? I’d get a string of pearls, but real pearls”. In the end of the story Midge doesn’t buy the pearls because the price of the pearls is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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