Katharine Brush The Birthday Party

Are relationships best built between introverts and extroverts? “The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush is a story ridden with metaphors and symbolism. The story is narrated by an individual seated opposite to the two main characters, in a small-scale restaurant having dinner. Katharine Brush asserts her belief that an individual identity is affected negatively by the clashing of opposing identities; mostly within relationships. The situation of the story starts of splendid and merry until the

“The Birthday Party” In the story “ The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush integrates caricature and atmosphere to obtain her objective. Brush illustrates a couple who are having dinner and reveals to be the husband’s birthday and his wife astonished him with a surprise. Throughout the story Brush generates caricature, repetition, and atmosphere to elaborate the emotions that is occurring throughout the story. Her priority throughout the story is to employ keywords to elaborate her main ideas to

Many emotions may be expressed with silence. In Katharine Brush's short story, "The Birthday Party"the husband reaction to his surprise with a mere priceless face expressions. Brush's use of caricature and imagery in order to achieve her purpose of exploring the deeper meaning of women's role in the late fourties. Women's average role was to cook, clean, and care for the children. Their priority was to attend the husband and children if any. If they were to do anything out of ordinary such as take

Birthday surprises usually put a smile on someone’s face, the person gets excited that others possibly strangers can join in on their day of birth. In the short story “Birthday Party,” Katharine Brush depicts a special birthday surprise a woman plans for her husband that would feel excited. However, Brush highlights the unwanted actions that occur through using imagery, diction, and appealing to one’s emotions. First, Brush uses imagery when describing the average couple that walks into the restaurant

In the short story “Birthday Party”, Katharine Brush uses a few devices to explain the birthday party and the emotions going on. Brush uses alliteration, imagery, and the appeal to emotion in her short story. This short story lets the reader wonder what is going on here. The story shifts from what seems like a pleasant evening date with a young married couple and then all of the sudden, things took a turn for the worst. In the first paragraph, everything seems to be going as planned to the wife

In the short story “Birthday Party”, Katharine Brush paints the tale of a husband’s birthday surprise from his wife and its unexpected outcome. Through dinner and dessert, Brush explores how quickly life can change from celebration to tragedy. Through the use of literary devices such as point of view and irony, “Birthday Party” conveys that life is not always what it seems and does not always turn out as planned. “They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked unmistakably married

"The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush interprets the cruelty of a man who does not appreciate his wife’s achievement of creating a special surprise. Imagery is included to describe every detail the woman was aware of to make the occasion perfect. Brush’s usage of the literary device serves to convey the purpose in which it shows how the man is a person who underappreciates his wife. Without imagery the story would not be able to present how much time and effort the woman must have taken to prepare

The Birthday Party by Katharine Brush utilizes personification and imagery to help communicate her message. Her message was that woman in the 1940’s were mistreated and how society saw woman. Brush’s personification reveals her purpose in the short story. The couple was at a restaurant for a special occasion. Brush states, “the husband’s birthday, and the wife had planned a little surprise for him”. This shows that the woman could not take credit in accomplishing something on her own. That’s

The first paragraph of Katharine Brush’s “Birthday Party” misleadingly creates an image of a couple that is in love and happy to be together. However, Brush’s use of various literary devices reveals the true nature of the couple’s relationship. Soon it becomes evident that while the husband is outwardly hostile towards his wife, she is very fixated on pleasing him and keeping up the appearance of a happy marriage. It is revealed to be the husband’s birthday when the wife’s “little surprise” is brought

“The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush incorporates caricature and atmosphere to fully achieve her purpose. Brush describes a couple who is having dinner and then proceeds to reveal that it’s the husbands birthday and the wife surprises him. Throughout the short story Brush elaborates on the the type of atmosphere that develops as the story progresses and includes certain words that describe the physical features of the characters. She focuses mainly on the keywords that describe the reactions of

Imagine spending weeks or multiple months planning the right thing to give to your significant other on their birthday. However, when you present them with your gif. You receive malicious comments rather than gratuity from him or her. This leaves you heartbroken and maybe even angry. Katharine Brush writes in her short story, “Birthday Party” about a birthday party gone awry. She explains the events of the evening and even sympathizes with the woman. The couple who seemed to be in their “late thirties”

Katharine Brush’s short story “Birthday party” depicts a man treating his wife rudely after his wife surprised him for his birthday. Brush tries to show the readers that people shouldn’t be rude or ungrateful when a loved one tries to impress them. Brush used imagery and assonance to achieve her purpose. Brush first shows ho the surprise cake looks by depicting it as “a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center.” This image reveals how simple the cake was but it

In the excerpt from the 1946 short story Birthday Party, Katharine Brush presents contrast through diction and imagery in order to reveal the couple’s complex relationship as appearance, speech/behavior, and effects on other characters; ultimately, this illustrates love and desire within marriages that usually have underlying tensions that are not publicly seen. Brush starts the story off with a couple dining at a restaurant. The venue is described as a little narrow and the couple as unmistakably

A birthday party regarding the age is always a nice gesture to have, and a great way to celebrate a birthday. A simple birthday cake can be really meaningful to a person on their birthday. In the short story "The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush, however she demonstrates that a relationship that does not take consideration and does not appreciate what their partner does for them, is a relationship that is not worth it. She gets this message across, using literary devices such as imagery, alliteration

In the short story, “The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush, Brush utilized literary devices such as repetition and point of view to emphasize the theme and purpose of her short story. Through the use of the third person point of view, the reader is able to understand the events that are happening in the restaurant without actually reading dialogue. An example would be when the waiter had brought out the cake and the husband’s feelings are described. “Instead he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant