Analysis of
“Furnished Room”
by O. Henry
Group: 4
Eshquvvatova Marhabo
Plan
Plot of the story
Composition
Redundancy
Imagery
Emotiveness
Foregrounding
Concept analysis
Plot
The short story is about a young man searching for his love in a furnished
room. He meets the owner of the furnished room that his love has rented
recently. In the latter part of the story, the young man commits suicide in the
same room where his love committed suicide, too.
Moreover, the landlady tells to a friend that she knows the girl that the
young man is looking for but she does not tell him because she is greatly
taking care of her reputation and her business. She wants no one to know that
someone committed suicide on her room because it won’t attract lodgers.
Composition
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Denoument
The rising action was when he
The exposition was when the reclines in the chair listening to a
narrator defines the New Yorker’s thousand stories told to him by the
modern nomadic nature and then scents and assets of the past tenants,
reveals a young man going to in the warm glow of the gaslight.He
searches the room in hopes of
buildings, to hunt for a spare room. chancing upon one of his darling’s
And he was looking for his lover . possessions.
Climax – is when the young The falling action is the conversation
man asks the housekeeper between Mrs. Purdy and Mrs McCool
about his sweetheart, but where it is revealed that Mrs Purdy
knew about the woman that the man
gets a negative reply. was talking about and that the
Dejected, he kills himself with woman had suicided in that very
the gas from the lamp. room that the man was in.
Denoument was Mrs. Purdy and Mrs
McCool chat about the room. She
praises Mrs. Purdy for not telling the
young man about the events of the
room in the past week for the sake of
business, while the young man is lying
dead upstairs.
REDUNDANCY
Repetition Parallel
Pariphrasi Epiphora: structure
: s:
They go from Restless,alway No. Always no.
furnished room He had asked his From other rooms
s moving, he heard a
to furnished question for five
room forever woman talking too
passing like months, the loudly; and he
answer was heard people
time itself …… always no. playing games for
They are money….
transients ,transi
ents forever – Every evening he
transients in went to the
living place.. theaters. He They
went to good sing the song,
theaters “Home, Sweet
He heard and to bad ones Home,” but they
someone sing it without
laughing, feeling
laughing in a what it means.
manner that ….
Imagery
Personification The furnished room
received the young man
Simile And he began to walk
with a certain around the room like a
warmth. Or it seemed to dog hunting a wild
receive him warmly. It animal.
seemed to promise that
here he could rest.
The floor cried out as if in
The young man sat down pain when it was walked
in a chair, while the room on.
tried to tell
him its history.
There was a floor
In front of the looking- covering of many
glass there was a thin colors, like an island of
spot in the floor flow-
covering. That told him
that women had been in ers in the middle of
the room. the room.
Emotiveness
They can
Once again he
carry answered loudly:
Oh, God! Where
everything did the smell of
“Yes, dear!” and
turned
they own in flowers Oh, God! Where did
one small come from? the smell of flowers
box. come from?
Foregrounding
• The conversation between Mrs. Purdy
Defeated and Mrs McCool where it is revealed that
Mrs Purdy knew about the woman that
expectancy
the man was talking about and that the
woman had suicided in that very room
that the man was in
• strong, sweet smell of a flower, small and
white,…...
Coupling • The smell came so surely and so
strongly……..
Convergence of • The floor cried out as if in pain when it
was walked on.(personification, simile)
stylistic devices
Conceptual Informativity
• RESTLESS, ALWAYS MOVING, FOREVER PASSING like time itself, are most of the
people who live in these old red houses. This is on New York’s West Side. The
people are homeless, yet they have a hundred homes. They go from furnished
room to furnished room. They are transients, transients forever—transients in
living place, transients in heart and mind. They sing the song, “Home, Sweet
Home,” but they sing it without feeling what it means. They can carry everything
they own in one small box. They know nothing of gardens. To them, flowers and
leaves are something to put on a woman’s hat.
