The Birthday Party :: Literary Analysis, Katherine Brush

When a married woman ramps her husband on his birthday, an ironic turn of events occurs. Katherine crashs The Birthday Party is a short story well-nigh relationships, told from the perspective of a nearby observer. coppice uses the words and actions of the married touch to assert t wear a relationship based on selfishness is weak.Immediately, the narrator stereotypes the duad by saying they looked unmistakably married (1). The couple symbolizes a relationship. Because sexual union is the deepest human relationship, Brush chose a married couple to underscore her heart and soul and strengthen the story. The husbands words weaken their relationship. When the man rejects his wifes gift with punishingquick, curt, and unpitying (19) words, he is being selfish. Selfishness is a matter of taking, just as love is a matter of giving. He has taken her emotional energy, and she is left crying quietly and heartbrokenly (21). Using unkind words, the husband drains his wife of emotional str ength and damages their relationship.The husband was besides selfish in his actions. With good intentions, the wife had planned a surprise for him, but he was not pleased. Instead, he was hotly low, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him (13). When the narrator describes the husband at the beginning, he has a self-satisfied face (3). Embarrassment is a result of feeling conscious. Because of his self-conscious nature, he assesses first how the few people in the restaurant go away view him because of his wifes actions. He does not prioritize taste perception for his wifes effort and care, but rather sees the worst in her misguided actions. The husbands selfishness causes him to be prideful, which in turn causes him to repeal his relationship with his wife through his actions.In a subtle way, Brush also makes the wifes actions selfish. Even though her husband was injure to react in the way that he did, she was also selfish in her actions. Clearly, her husband has a shy personality because he was hotly embarrassed (13) in front of such few people as there were in the restaurant (11). Using a couple of this age ( recently thirties (1)), Brush asserts that the wife should have known her husbands preferences and been sensitive to them. The author also uses the seemingly opposite descriptions the couple at that place was nothing conspicuous about them (5) and the big hat (4) of the woman. The big hat reveals the wifes desire to be noticed.