Empty Seat †Analysis Essay

The author of this text is Yuan Chiung-chiung, popularly cal lead Yuan Qiongqiong. She is a Taiwanese writer, and she wrote during the Boudoir lit period. The characteristics of texts written in this period, is that they focuses on womens issues. In this analysis, I will mostly focus on the characters, together with some literary devices such as climax and setting. The action takes place in a crowded bus, most likely in the 80s due the fact that the accounting was released in that time frame. I find the story to dont have a crystal clear climax however, if I were to opt one, I would choose the part where the protagonist leaves his seat. Empty seat is a short story about a adult male entering a bus, who sat down at the first empty seat he spotted. Some moments later he heard a strange sound, and he didnt realize where it came from because of some downplay noise. After a while, he found out the woman next to him was sobbing. He immediately leaned away from the woman, because he did nt want people to see that he had something to do with her. Despite this, the other passengers still looked at him with a strange look, among them a college boy.He stared at the protagonist, who is the man, but he looked away as soon as the man returned the look. The man tried to signal that he hadnt done anything mean against the woman, but it seemed like nobody realized that he was a stranger to the woman. He couldnt handle the situation, so he left his seat next to the sobbing woman, and stood beside the college boy instead. They smiled to each other, and then the man realized that the collage boy sat there before him. He and the college boy then watched a new passenger take the seat. We dont get to know a lot about the characters in the story, but its possible to tell a fairly accurate description of them by reading the text. The man who entered the bus, and then sat down next to the sobbing woman, is without a doubt the protagonist.The whole story is centered around his experi ence on the bus, and the narrator tells about the mans movements. The story doesnt tell us anything about the characters other than their genders, or where the action takes place. This makes it impossible to give a description based on facts. Despite this, I will still try to give a description of it based on my thoughts. I cerebrate that the man, who entered the bus, and the woman who were sobbing, is fairly the same age. The reason behind this is because the protagonist thought that the other passengers on the bus thought that he was the one that had hurt her. If an unadorned age difference was involved, I dont think that he would have cared.I think that the story takes place in Taiwan, since the author of this story is a Taiwanese writer. It is also not a bad idea to think that the author may has experienced something similar on a bus, which led her to writing this story. The three characters in this story, which are the collage boy, the sobbing woman and the man, dont seem to k now each other. If either the man or the boy knew the woman, they would most likely be sitting next to her and tried to comfort her. The man also tried to prevent that people would think that he knew her. I personally enjoyed this story a lot, and I would recommend it to a friend. It was both interesting to read, and it tells about parts of todays society in a fascinating way.