Analisis Red Wind

Analysis of a story

Literary Elements

I- Title: The Red Wind

II- A. Theme: Revenge
B. Commentary: The protagonist is used to describe what a true man should be.
III- A. Plot: Thestory is about a detective that after witnessing a murder of a man in a bar decides to investigate and gets involve with a woman which he tries to protect.
B. Crisis/Climax: When themurder tries to kill the detective and the woman saves his life, catching the killer and giving him to the police.
C. Resolution: The women explains to the detective the issue she had with thedeceased about some pearls which turned out to be fake and by that, the detective to prevent the women from ever discovering this fact he has another set of fakes made up with the original. The womanassumes that the killer sold the originals. The detective then drives to the ocean and throws the original pearls into the water.
D. Multiplot: 1. The murder of the guy at the bar and the pearlsituation.
IV- Conflict: A. Character vs. supernatural- evil (The detective fights against the bad things that are happening and tries to solve the problems).
B. Ethical conflict
V. Setting:“Hot winds of Santa Ana” in Southern California
-Foreshadows violence and death
- Red= Blood and passion
VI- Character:
* The narrator and protagonist- Phillip Marlow (detective): Hero maybe around character.
* The bartender-Lou Petrolle
* “Waldo” Joseph Coats
* The killer
* The two police- Copernik and Ybarra
* The Girl in the print bolero jacket- “Lola” Barsley
*Mrs. Kolchenko and Mr. Kolchenko
* Mr. Frank Barsley
**The characters tend to be round and stock characters.
VII- Narration of the story: Narrator is the protagonist Phillip Marlow, thedetective. It is a reliable narrator.
VIII- Point of view: The detective Phillip Marlow
IX- Symbols:
* Archetypal- white pearls (beauty of femininity of Lola)
* Phallic- Guns ( the men)