Terms of Each Plot and Character in The Short Story “Quality” by John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

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INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Terms of Each Plot and Character

In The Short Story “Quality”

By John Galsworthy

(1867-1933)

After reading the short story of Equality, we can imagine what the author writes and means. It can be exposed through the plots and characters told. The plot and characters that is showed are in a term strongly, it is so characteristic and influential with interested events. The plot that is made by John Galsworthy explores all of the important things, it belongs to characters, place of each events, time of happening, and cause-effect that is supported by acts of the each character. Plot is literary term for the events a story comprise, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, a sequence, through cause and effect, or by coincidence (2dix.com). It is the moment that is built of previously moment or the next moment. It means that the plot connects the cause moment and the effect moment. That is being with characters to do each event, each time, and each place. Whereas, character is the actor of the story, it can be person, animal, or thing (docstoc.com). Those are been in a term in a work, so does Quality.

Plot or the structural of action has been made by Galsworthy through the characters, events, and term of cause-effect. The first introducing is raised up by the narrator as the first person, refers to first line, “I knew HIM from the days of my extreme youth, because he made my father’s boot” character I refers to the narrator and HIM refers to the person that is immediately told, Mr. Gressler. He is boot maker from German. Mr. Gressler works at a tenement with his brother. At the time, the narrator is fourteen and he tells the Mr. Gressler as the person with red beard and stong, it refers to “He was a little as if made from leather, with his yellow crinkly face, and crinkly reddish hair and beard, and neat folds slanting down his cheeks to the corners of his mouth,” As far as this, the reader can follow the step of this introducing, who Mr. Gessler and the narrator are, how they age are. But the complication comes slowly when the narrator or the consumer cannot come to him very often. It can be looked at, “For it was not possible to go him very often-his boots lasted terribly, having something beyond the temporary-some, as it were, essence of boot stitched into him.” He will take the boots back if he can do nothing with the creaked boots it is not made by him instead. It is according to, “Mr. Gessler that last pair of town walking-boots creaked, you know.” But Mr. Gessler just says “Zend dem back!” He promise to repair it and to guarantee it if he can do nothing. Walking to the conflict when the narrator is coming again after ordered many pairs to Mr. Gessler but the situation has changed. The narrator has left him for nearly two years. It refers to, “They lasted more terribly than ever. And I was not able conscientiously to go to him for nearly two years.” We can imagine that Mr. Gessler can make good boots, in other hand it makes him lost the order in a long time. Mr. Gessler is also lost his brother, his other shop, and his hair has suddenly gone. “And he touched the top of his head, where the hair suddenly gone as thin as it had been on that of his poor brother. Galsworthy tries to show the age of Mr. Gessler at the time with flash back, “It was over a year before I was again in London...I had left a man of sixty I came back to one of seventy-five, pinched and tremulous...” The plot is set shuffle, the information of Mr. Gessler age is shown at the time when the narrator is coming back to London. How older Mr. Gessler at the time. The quality of his boots is also better than before, the time to make is faster, and the bill is same as usual, it is according to “How splendid your boots are!...I can make dem quickly; id is a slack dime...I had given those boots up when one evening they came, they best ever made me...I found his bill the amount was the same usual...He had never before sent it in till quarter day.” From those texts, the reader must be able to dramatize how good Mr. Gessler is. But it was the climax until the resolution is rising up when the narrator passing the little street a week later and knowing that Mr. Gassler has passed away by starving. Those shops have been taken over by new owner.

The story set the plot and the character in terms. It can be figured out by the steps that Galsworthy has written. From physical character of Mr. Gessler who has red beard, then it is changing into grey. After lift by the narrator in many years, he has been bold. So later he has been pinched worn out until a week later he passes away. So does in the events of informing the characters age. The narrator raises through introducing of fourteen and Mr. Gessler is about forty. It is until the narrator says that he has left Mr. Gessler when Mr. Gessler was sixty and knowing he has been seventy-five. The quality of Mr. Gessler’s boots is also shown from good to be more terribly than ever. Then it is better than ever until it is the best ever. Those all are made in faster time from long, longer and so quick made.