The girl on the bus
The story by William Sansom is named "The girl on the bus". The title of every story is significant because it names the sense for the story. The title of the story introduces the main hero- "the girl". It is clear that the girl is in the center of action, which states the cause of the conflict. The words "on the bus" determine the place of the story. It doesn't mean that the main action takes place exactly "on the bus", but it could mean the surrounding of the story. In my opinion, the author by the words "on the bus" wanted to hint at the changeable setting of the story. The exposition starts with the words "Once leaving Haga" and finishes with the words "Naturally, he felt nervous, frustrated, and dull". The exposition lies in the opening the point of the story. The exposition presents the setting. It presents the place and gives short information about the place and time. The first event takes place in "a park in Stockholm, on a winter day". There is no any other description about place; the information about the place is very short. Also the first sentence gives the name to the main hero, who is named by Harry. The event takes place in a park, where Harry met the girl and "the beauty
The narrator doesn't express the further condition and thoughts of the hero, but he describes in detail the place, where Harry left after saloon. The tension is going up again, because he was nervous, but he tried to walk without any reason and to "pretend that it was necessary to turn to light this against the wind" "thus hidden, watch her". The first episode starts with calm atmosphere without any hint at the conflict, because "he was fool to have taken a passing emotion so seriously". The narrator prepares the reader for this by creating the atmosphere. This conflict appeared in the first episode, became stained in the second episode and reached to the highest point in the third episode. "Common sense and a suspicion of the ridiculous strengthened him". The tension of internal conflict is going up according to the words "with never a hope to see her again". We can see that according to the "weather was beginning to blow, a freshness of pounding black waves echoed in from the North Sea and storm clouds raced ragged across a dark sky". But all his fears returned when he saw her sitting in the room according to the words "the panic rose again in Harry's chest". " The third part of the second episode foretells preparation for the highest point of the conflict. He hides himself from his personality and he was in horror by mention "her looking straight at him". The second episode continues the conflict from the first episode. The main hero is getting ready too and we see that according to his condition, because his horror changes panic: "in some panic.
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