The short story 'Mossy' by Audrey Evans is a story, which describes a character at a turning point in her life, who comes to a sudden realisation. In this essay I intend to show how, through her characterisation of Miss Stone, Audrey Evans shows the change in the character.
             Written in third-person narration and set in a Scottish secondary school, Miss Stone who is a very strict teacher who is always in control of her pupils. Miss Stone doesn't take any interest in any of her pupils, until on her last day before retirement when she is taken a detention for a teacher whom she previously taught she meets a boy called Wayne Docherty that she realises the pupils in front of her are all individuals and have their own problems. In this case it's Wayne and his life is terrible.
             The structure of this short story is such that it leaves the reader in no doubt about the change that occurs in the main character Miss Stone. At the beginning of the story Evans successfully builds up a picture of the main character as being a hard-hearted, uncaring individual who distances herself from others. We know Miss Stone is a heartless person because of the way she speaks to Dawn, one of the girls who attended the detention only because she had a crush on Mr Downie, the man who usually took detention. When Miss Stone sees that the girl looks disappointed and asks where Mr Downie was she said, "Mr Downie wished to see his fiancée this evening I agreed to take his place." This shows she has no sympathy for others and does not care about hurting their feelings. As she knows Dawn likes Mr Downie and this would hurt her feelings. Mossy also shows clearly how she feels towards her colleagues when she says: "I have never involved myself with my formal pupils" this shows that she takes no interest in her pupils and takes nothing to do with them she just teaches them. Miss Stone asks to take over d...