Concetti Chiave
- The story is set in a bakery in the United States during the early 1900s.
- Miss Martha, the protagonist, tries to help a mysterious customer she believes to be a poor artist.
- The customer buys stale bread daily, leading Miss Martha to secretly add butter to it, thinking it will assist him.
- The customer returns angry, revealing he uses the stale bread for his artwork, and the butter ruined it.
- The narrative employs a third-person omniscient narrator, offering insights and intrusions into the story.
Witches' Loaves
DATA ABOUT THE BOOK=
Author: O.Henry
Type of book: Short Story_ Fiction
Published in: 1911
CONTENT=
Setting:United States
Place:a backery (indoor setting)
Time:in the early '900
Plot:Miss Martha works in a backery. One day comes a new customer and she tries to know more about the man. Looking at him she begin thinking that he's an artist and that he's poor. The mysterious customer buys every day stale bread. One day she put butter into the stale bread without saying him because she wants help him.
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE=
Type of narrator:3rd person, omniscent, outside the story, he intrudes upon the story
STYLE=
Comments on the language of the text: rich in dialogues
Themes: Prejudice
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