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The story is headlined "W. S.", written by L. P. Hartley. He was a British novelist, short story writer and for more than twenty years – a fiction reviewer. He published his first book, a collection of short stories, entitled "Night Fears" when he was 29. He was possessed by ideas of guild and evil. L. P. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator and all his tales are admirably told. "W. S." comes from "The Complete Short Stories of L. P. Hartley" which he wrote at the age of 78.
From the extract of the story "W. S.", we understand that the main character is Walter Streeter – a novelist, who receives strange letters from someone with the same initial W. S. But W. Streeter is not the narrator of this story, he is only a protagonist. The story is narrating from a third-person, that's why we don't know all feelings of the protagonist, but from this point of view the story is more objective. And only in several sentence we can read the direct speech of the protagonist – he talks with himself.
Figuratively the story can be divided into three episodes – three postcards from W. S., which come from Forfar, Berwick-on-Tweed and York Minister. These places are connected with inner feelings of protagonist, for example, Berwick-on-Tweed is the place on the Border, and W. Streeter is a borderline case. The obvious comparison also may be followed between the third postcard of York Minister and W. Streeter's interest in cathedrals. Even the stranger connects these two things: an interest in big churches and W. Street's megalomania. The fourth part of the story can be conditionally underlined The search of the truth. W. Streeter gets a lot of different letters from his readers, but these three postcards from W. S. without address make him feel very nervous. He decides to represent the appearance and purposes of W. S. His attempts lead him to the police and to the wave of panic.
In this short and mysterious extract of the story, we can find different stylistic devises, such as lexical stylistic devises, for example, Simile: "the cathedral York minster like a sign of megalomania at the author". Though such comparison we can image a value of his self-confidence. Simile: "A woman, a little-like creature...". Metaphor: "...an ambiguous world". According to W. Streeter an ambiguous world is the real world and his subconscious state. Metaphor: "...barrier of self-criticism". Stable expression: "...have their feet firm on the ground". Repetition or Anaphora: "Perhaps they didn't have their feet firm on the ground. Perhaps he was too ready to escape, as other novelists were nowadays, into an ambiguous world, a world where the conscious mind did not have things too much its own way." It increases the uncertainty of a situation.
There are also different syntactical devises, for example, Parallelism: "You have always been so interested in Scotland, and that is one reason why I am interested in you", the similar arrangement of elements of speech makes us feel a little bit nervous, because the first sentence reinforces the second one. A lot of Rhetorical questions: "Was his correspondent a man or a woman?", "But did that matter?". Rhetorical questions make us feel unenlightened and add the puzzle during the story. Detachment, where secondary part of speech is isolated from the main part: "It looked like a man's handwriting – commercial, unselfconscious – and the criticism was like a man's." Detachment clarifies thoughts and adds the additional feature of a person.
All these stylistic devises help us to feel stress and fear of the protagonist because of the stranger W. S. Devises also help to understand the inner feelings of W. Streeter and the atmosphere of situation without deep description of it: W. Street doesn't say that he is in panic, but all his thoughts and actions betray him. We've read only the extract of the story W. S. and we don't know the end of it – is W. S. a woman or it just the split personality of W. Streeter, – but this short part keeps us in suspense exactly because of usage different stylistic devises.
