The Man With the Scar Analysis

The story The human beings with the Scar I would like to speak nigh is written by W. Somerset Maugham who is one of the most popular and widely read English writers. He wrote novels, terse stories, plays and most of them had a dandy commercial success. W. Somerset Maugham traveled a lot during his life, he met different people, saw their lives so he gained a lot from his trips. Sometimes Maughams stories were thinly cloaked episodes involving his host or others he had met on his travels-circumstances that occasionally resulted in threats and lawsuits.The text for analysis is a short story. The main character is the storyteller who speaks about events from the first person. The secondary character is a friend of the storyteller, we discern nothing about him his name, age, his prof, etc. Hes just a affiliate which answers the germs questions but he also plays a particular role in the story, because the author reproduces the life of the hu populace beings with the cicatrice wi th the help of his companion.The story takes place in The Palace Hotel at Guatemala city in rudiwork forcetary America. Author uses the Spanish language Que tal, general, Gracias for underlining the local coloring of the place and the nationality of the men which speak this language. The history begins with the description of the scar on the mans face. Author uses epithets like broad and red, a great crescent thats why storyteller notices this man, because of his scar, and immediately he tries to understand why this scar appeared on his face.Author gives us a mans appearance and characteristic features using epithets undistinguished features, artless boldness what about mans appearance He wears a very shabby grey suit, a khaki shirt and a battered sombrero. From this description given by storyteller we can tell that the man with the scar could be a military man, maybe Spaniard but a poor man. His subject consists of selling lottery tickets. Than the author introduces a little d ialogue amidst authors companion and the man with the scar.The tone of their conversation shows us affably mood. Companion is interested in the life of the man with the scar, his business, calls him general and treats him, offers a brandy. The next passage tells us a sad story about the Man with the Scar. We get to know he was a general, he was able to upset the government but he was tried by court-martial and was sentenced to be shot ay dawn. Author gives us two descriptions. The first shows us the night before the execution. The men were playing poker and the author underlines that he general, hed never had such a run of bad luck in his life speaking about poker. This vocalize tells us about true character of the man, because he was condemned to remainder at the dawn, what could be worst? further no for him not be winner in poker is important. I think he authentic his destiny and he lived one day one night. Then storyteller describes the day after the night. The day of the ex ecution. The men were led into the patio of the goal and placed against the wall, the five of them aide by side.The men were wait for the generals arrival, and the man with the scar as an optimist said that than he had the time to smoke some other cigarette and added that the general was always unpunctual. This phrase tells us that our character knows the general very well. The general arrived and asked men their last wish. Four of the five shook their heads but our friend accepted. The author introduces the little dialogue between the general and the man.From this dialogue we get to know about the last wish of the man with the scar, he craved to see his wife, which was waiting for him at the prison door, for theorizeing to her good bye. The general accepted. While our friend was heater his last cigarette the four men were executed. The storyteller give us the description of the wife she was in black, with a veil over her hair, and her face was dead white. It was clear she was shaking with a fear. The author shows us her beauty, loveliness which was very attractive but which had short life.The man killed his wife, but so apace that nobody could understand how this had occurred. The author shows us the reaction of the other men and the A. D. C means general. Everybody was shake but nothing could be done. Shes dead the general concluded. Why did you do it? asked the general. I love her answered man. The general said at last It was a noble gesture and refused to execute him. So the death of the woman was the culmination point of the story. The wife dead for the sake of her husband.In conclusion I have to say this story begins with authors worrying about the scar on the face of the man and ends with the like question But how then did he get the scar? the narrator asked his companion Oh that was the due to a bottle that I burst when I was opening it .. a bottle of ginger ale And the authors answer I never liked it this shows us the frustration, the authors frustration of the cause of that scar why the scar appeared on his faceSo the scar had not been caused by a sabre or by a fragment of shell, no it had been caused by a bottle of ginger ale.