Empty Seat †Analysis Essay

The author of this text is yuan Chiung-chiung, popularly called Yuan Qiongqiong. She is a Taiwanese writer, and she wrote during the Boudoir literature period. The characteristics of texts written in this period, is that they snapes on womens issues. In this analysis, I will mostly focus on the characters, together with some literary devices such as apogee and setting. The action takes place in a crowded bus, most probable in the 80s due the fact that the fiction was released in that time frame. I find the story to beginnert pee-pee a crystal clear climax however, if I were to choose one, I would choose the part where the protagonist leaves his seat. Empty seat is a short-change story about a gentlemans gentleman entering a bus, who sit take in at the first empty seat he spotted. round moments later he heard a strange sound, and he didnt realize where it came from because of some background noise. After a while, he put in out the woman next to him was prick. He immediate ly leaned away from the woman, because he didnt want people to think that he had something to do with her. patronold age 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 through 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 leftfield 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 passably veracious 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 d oubt the protagonist.The whole story is touch on around his experience 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 think 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 obvious age difference was involved, I dont think that he would leave 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 predilection 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, w hich are the collage boy, the sobbing woman and the man, dont seem to know each other. If every the man or the boy knew the woman, they would most likely be seated next to her and tried to comfort her. The man also tried to keep open 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 split of todays society in a fascinating way.