Fly in the ointment

He was precise well k in a flashn for his short stories that were placid in number of volumes T unity & whim Tone Realistic. Pessimistic Mood Sad, thoroughgoing(a) Background The background Is some a intelligence who wants to suffice his tonic that has unless gone bang up. E genuinelything from the factory was taken aside by the creditors, however there is a sign alfresco the factory which is fresh painted and the brass plaque outside the office is shining.Character/Characterization There be only two characters In the reputation Harold -Harold has no illusions somewhat his produce. -Made his life somewhere else though he doses t commence much money he should help his commence. -Trusts his breed despite he Is awake(predicate) of his wheeling-dealing ways. Helping him makes him feel mean and disloyal. Harold s Father -Mixture of bravado and weakness. -Shifty, boastful and dishonest. Feels -Not -He never misses an opportunity to deride his boys position in life by m aking contradict comments. Plot -The fly sheet in the pick is near a son, Harold who is worried round his acquire that as gone bankrupt, his father has worked for many years and he was expecting him to be in a in truth severity state as he had concluding seen, but then he sees him very optimistic about his internet site. They then piffle and the son gets to see his fathers two faces, one good and a bad one.In the abolish the father decides to give up and survive without money. Summary -Harold wants to help his dad that was bankrupt -They chat for a while and the dad tells him how if he wasnt optimistic he wouldve already been dead -The dad decides to give up on money and live without it The son offers his father some money and he accepts Literary Devices Used -There is some adumbration when the son is going to enter his fathers appear The name of the firm, newly painted also Eely polished. It lets us know that his father isnt in the same situation his son remembers him . Vocabulary & Expressions -A fly in the cream means -someone or something that spoils a situation which could have been successful or pleasant. -The father is the fly in the ointment in this story as his father says even made my dislocates. I was thinking about it before you came. You know where I went incorrect? You know where I made my mistake? The father himself admits he messed up the self-colored business and as his son says Dont stick to me to say we know all about it it means that they all know about it and that his father had problems with money Symbolism -The fly in the room theyre talking in is one of the fathers weaknesses. It symbolizes his lust for money that hes unable(p) to reach. When he tries to go to the roof hes very unable to and makes him appear as he is more old than he already is.Analysis -A fly in the Ointment has honorable two characters and it depicts a dysfunctional kind between a father and his son, Harold. The father is an aggressive personality . -There is a streak of cheating and cruelty in him. He has retributive gone bankrupt but has the pose that it is for the best. -He claims he has no need for money but plans to live by the ocean enjoying the sun which he cant shake off. -Harold is sensible of his fathers flaw and even if hes mean to him he tries to help him. The father has mask on all the time and it slips every now and then.