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An analysis of the short story “The Open Window”
The short story “The Open Window” written by Saki whose real name is Hector Hugh Munro is a great
story which resides in the short story collection “Beasts and Super-Beasts”
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The
story illustrates how a gullible, naïve and neurotic adult is outsmarted by an ingenious and assertive girl
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It is
shown that most of the time people are deceived by the appearance without realizing the reality
through wisdom
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Though deception is there it is not because of
malevolence or tediousness
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Another sub-theme is the distinctions between introvert and
extrovert, prudent and imprudent people in society and their confusions
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But the children
who have good sense in dealing with practical matters, ridicule the gullible nature of adults
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The main three characters of the story are Mr
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Sappleton and Mrs
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Mr
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He gets easily duped and solemn
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Nuttel is not straightforward
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As Mrs
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Nuttel”
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She is very perceptive and self-assured
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She herself seems to enjoy her
talent as she carefully fabricates stories with the resources she has
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Sappleton’s “great tragedy”
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This hints that Vera is going to play some of her
mischief with him
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Even “with a dazed horror in her eyes” Vera acts
talentedly to deceive Mr
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Though Vera is fifteen, Saki
addresses her as a “young lady” because of her precociousness and articulateness
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Sappleton who becomes the antagonist in Vera’s story acts freely in front of Mr
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She who “rattled on cheerfully” not knowing about the tale asks
“you don’t mind the open window” making Nuttel more nervous
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Nuttel
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Sappleton who knows well about
niece too becomes blind in this instance and gets deceived
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She wants to be happy and
spend time happily with them
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So, the plot is revealed by a narrator who is not
himself involved in the story
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Saki also uses the structure story-within-a-story in the short story
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Nuttel and Mrs
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The two other stories are made up by Vera to amuse both Mr
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Sappleton
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It
symbolizes two things at two different places
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However in the main story it
symbolizes deceit and treachery, which is Vera’s main phenomenon
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Foreshadowing of what happens in next few minutes with Vera and
Mr
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There is also verbal irony used in the story
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Sappleton saying “I hope Vera has been amusing you?”
is very ironical
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Even Framton says
that “she has been very interesting” though his nerves ache
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The tone of the short story is too satirical and derisive
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Saki uses onomatopoeic words such as “snarling”, “grinning” and “foaming” which
stress Nuttel’s fright in spending a night in a “newly dug grave”
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According to my viewpoint, the story is a great success which shows some of the weaknesses within
people
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Then, England was at the peak
of colonial power and industrialization
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Mr
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So, the story shows how these people’s lives
differentiate from each other
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Nuttel through Vera as he has no nerves to understand and feel childish tales of vera
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With the influences of industrialization people have become more insensitive and introvert
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Saki becomes successful in bringing out this with the great artwork, “The Open Window”
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Dilini

Digitally signed by Dilini
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email=dilini
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com, c=US
Date: 2015
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31 16:00:00
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