Analyze of "The standart of Living"

Dewi Musfirotul Azizah
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Characters

There are two (main) characters in the story, Annabel and Midge. Because the writer tells that both of them has a same characters, based on the quote:
1. Annabel and Midge : arrogant, greedy, selfish.
     “Annabel and Midge came out of the tea room with the arrogant slow gait of the leisured, for their Saturday afternoon stretched ahead of them.”
2. Sylvia: one of their officemate

     “Once Annabel had introduced the game to Sylvia, another girl who worked in the office.”
3. A clerk: Patient, polite
“The clerk bowed.”

Setting

Setting of place

1.       Tea room:Annabel and Midge came out of the tea room . . .

2.       Home:Each girl lived at home with her family . . .

3.       Office : Annabel and Midge did, and completely, all that young office workers . . .

4.       Shop: Together they went over to the shop window and stood pressed against it.

5.       Store : “Why, a store like this wouldn’t even be open this afternoon,” Midge said.

Setting of time

1.       Afternoon : “Why, a store like this wouldn’t even be open this afternoon,” Midge said.

2.       Saturday afternoon : Annabel and Midge came out of the tea room with the arrogant slow gait of the leisured at Saturday afternoon.

3.       Noon : They lunched together every noon.

Setting of condition

1.       Happy : “They were happy”

2.       Hot wind : . . . “as they walked across to Fifth Avenue with their skirts swirled by the hot wind.”

Point of View:
The writer use the third person as the point of view, because the author is not told as character who involved in the story.

Plot

1.       Beginning of the story : telling about the characteristics of the subject in the story.
They are Annabel and Midge.

2.       Rising Action : The raising action beginning from Annabel and Midge followed a game.

3.       Climax : It happened when Midge played with seriousness not only proper but extreme. The first thing that she should do was buying the silver-fox coat, but she had a problem because Annabel thought that buy it just common. So Midge tried to buy something more then it.

4.       Falling action : It is beginning when they are changing their mind about buy a coat to be a pearl, but they can not buy that.

5.       Resolution → there is no resolution here because the writer use opened plot. Where the reader can conclude the end of the story by themselves.

Conflict

1.       Person Vs self: they have conflict with themselves, because they are unsatisfied with their live.

Conclusions

In this story the writer tells about two women that not satisfied with themselves. They are acting as a rich people, ignorant people acting as educated people. Here the writer tells that are people are shallow, greedy, selfish, generally immoral creatures and how materialistic they are .