1. Introduction
Short story is the term of literary works
which is interesting to analyze. Since hundreds years ago, people like to read
many short stories. Because it has unique characteristic that can stop red in
one time of sitting. The variant of short stories day by day have developed,
such as fiction, nonfiction, auto biography, and etc.
Fiction story, which have many
imagination things around it, has loved by many people. Analyzing short story
has much done by many literary lovers. They use intrinsic and extrinsic
approach for analyzing the short story. By analyzing short story we can know
deeply about the short story, especially something implicitly behind the story.
In this paper, the researcher focuses to
analyze the short story of “the Romance of Busy Broker” by O Henry, using intrinsic
approach. This paper is aimed to analyze the element – element of short story.
Such as plot, setting, character, theme, and etc
The short story “the romance of busy a
Broker “is the great literary work which written by O Henry. He was an excellent writer and very talented in writing surprise
endings to all of his stories ("O Henry"). He wrote about average
people living in New York City, this influenced the settings of most his
stories by giving the reader a visual of the senses he wrote about. In the
stories "A Romance of a Busy Broker which was written by O Henry, both are
influenced by O Henry's life and talents. Also used in his stories were many
literary elements such as, characterization, situational irony, symbolism, and
foreshadowing.
2. The
analysis of the short story
This paper
is analyzing the short story “the romance a busy broker “by O Henry. The
analysis of the story is depending on the element of story. There are explained
below:
a.
Plot
o
The structure of
plot
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Beginning
One Fine
morning Maxwell enters the office in the usual schedule
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Rising action
Maxwell
asked pitcher to look for another stenographer, it show when Ms Leslie ask “did
Mr. Maxwell say anything yesterday about engaging another stenographer?” it’s
actually Mr. Pitcher misunderstands call for a replacement stenographer to
replace Miss. Leslie
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Climax
When
Ms Leslie told to Maxwell that he was so busy in his works so he forgot
everything. Then she tells that both of them have got married in the previous
evening at 08 o’clock at the little church around the corner.
o
The laws of plot
· Surprise
When
Ms Leslie tells to Maxwell that they have been marries in the previous church, actually
the writer use surprise ending to make the reader shock. At the beginning
reader leaded that Ms Leslie is only the secretary and will fired, but suddenly
when Maxwell propose her, she tell that they have been married.
· Suspense
When
Maxwell say that he want to ask Love to Ms Leslie, in here the reader are
persuaded that there must be something happen after this.
· Foreshadowing
"Pitcher, still mildly
curious, noticed a difference in her ways this morning...
That
part shows that even thought Miss. Leslie was quite Mr. Pitcher could still see
that something was different in the way she acted. Another example of
foreshadowing is when tears started to fill up in Miss. Leslie's eyes after
being told by Mr. Maxwell that he loves her and wants her hand in marriage.
b.
Character
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Major Character
: Maxwell, Ms Leslie
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Minor Character
: Pitcher
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Flat Character :
Ms Leslie
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Round Character
: Maxwell
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Dynamic
Character : Pitcher
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Character Analysis
Characteristic
|
Henry Maxwell
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Ms Leslie
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Pitcher
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Physical
|
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Expressionless
countenance
-
Keen grey eye
|
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Beautiful
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Softly, Shiny
radiant
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Dreamily
bright eyes
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Genuine peach
blow check
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Use grey dress
and plain turban
|
|
Intellectual
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forgetful
|
professional
|
Confidential clerk
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Emotional
|
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Impersonal
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Brusque
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Impatiently
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Patient
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Happy
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Cry
|
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Social
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Forget that Leslie
has been his wife
|
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Not the air of
accepting luncheon invitation
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Patient force
her husband
|
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Obedient
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Misunderstanding
with Maxwell about new stenographer
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Construe Ms
Leslie
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Curious
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Mild interest
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Philosophical
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Hard work
|
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Wise
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Patient
|
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obedient
|
In this story the reader used
direct and indirect method of characterization. Because he tells the
characterization by showing what the character looks like directly, and by
catch up for what happen in the story.
o
Ultimately
This is about, what we
can learn from the character that appears in the story. Such as from Ms Leslie,
we can learn about her wise and patient face his husband, even he is a forgetful
man.
c.
Setting
o
Physical Setting
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New York Stock
Exchange
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Maxwell office
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Maxwell’s room
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Inner office
o
Geographical
location
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The office
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The machine
sitting at the desk
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The desk
telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing
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There is a chair
in the exchange
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Inner office
o
Time
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In morning
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Previous day
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On 9.45
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Luncheon hour
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Evening,08
o’clock
o
Social setting
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High class
In this story the
writer use third point of view, because he show all the character from outside.
On the other hand the writer also became omniscient narrator, because he enters
the mind of any character, for example: Pitcher, still mildly curious, noticed
a difference in her ways this morning. It is show that the writer tells the
reader directly what pitcher thinking.
d.
Theme
The theme of this short
story is about love, because it tells about the romance of busy broker that
very busy, then he become forgetful. Even, he can forget his wife, he ask his
wife again to marry him. His wife actually very wise, she doesn’t angry what
her husband’s have done. She was remembering again to Maxwell, that they have
married at last evening at 08 o’clock.
o
Moral value
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Don’t always
think that job is everything
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Always remember
your family
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Be patient to
face forgetful man
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Don’t force
yourself to work hard
