Concetti Chiave
- The story is set in a bakery in the United States during the early 1900s, providing an indoor backdrop for the unfolding events.
- Miss Martha, the protagonist, works in the bakery and becomes intrigued by a mysterious customer who buys stale bread daily.
- Believing the customer to be a poor artist, Miss Martha secretly adds butter to the bread to help him, leading to unintended consequences.
- The customer reveals his anger when the butter inadvertently ruins his work, as he uses the stale bread to erase pencil lines.
- The narrative employs a third-person omniscient perspective, offering rich dialogues and exploring the theme of prejudice.
Author: O.Henry
Type of book: Short Story_ Fiction
Published in: 1911
Setting:United States
Place:a backery (indoor setting)
Time:in the early '900
Plot:Miss Martha works in a backery.
The Mystery Shopper
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. But than the artist comes back to the backery: he's angry because the butter destroyed his work (he uses the stale bread to rub out pencil lines).
Type of narrator:3rd person, omniscent, outside the story, he intrudes upon the story
Comments on the language of the text: rich in dialogues
Themes: Prejudice
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