The psychology, particularly of the boss, is immensely interesting, and the story, seems to have the character of what is called the stream-of-consciousness novel. None of them is fully sketched, yet their inner aspects are well brought out. The present story contains only two prominent personalities- Mr. This is because of its extremely short span. The entirety of the whole story is well preserved, with the beginning, the middle and the end in a perfectly symmetrical order.Ī short story, as known already, has a few characters. The unity of the plot is wonderfully maintained by the story-teller with a perfect synthesis between the exposition, the development and the climax, although the subject of the story is intricate enough. The climax comes with the fly episode which follows from the sorrow of the father’s heart at the memory of his dead son. Woodifield’s talk that intensifies the grief-stricken heart of the father, serves as the exposition, which is developed, as the bereaved man recalls his dead son and muses on his own reliance on him. Both these episodes actually are used to represent the psychology of a bereaved, rather wretched, father, deeply mourning within.Īs noted already, the plot of the story is organic, smoothly passing from the exposition to the development and then to the climax. Both the episodes, however, never seem independent of each other, and they are unified through the character of the boss who is the hero of the story. The plot of the story is apparently simple and single, although there are actually two episodes-the Woodifield episode and the fly episode. Woodifield, one of his close associates, and he is found involved in a state of mental desperation, in a little episode of a fly, and he ultimately causes its cruel death. The memory of his dead son is stirred by Mr. The story mainly presents the mental state of a big business man who is deeply distressed by the untimely death of his only son, some six years ago. Though the story is short, the matter is complex and liable to be interpreted differently and symbolically. The Fly is very brief, complete in five pages only. A short story, as asserted already, has a very brief plot.
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