Somerset Maugham's The Luncheon

In this essay, the author

• Analyzes the title of somerset maugham's "the luncheon", a short-story written by the english novelist, playwright, and essayist.
• Analyzes how the narrator recognizes a woman with whom he had lunch years ago. she had read of his books and congratulated him on his work.
• Analyzes how maugham presents a flash back at the beginning of the text, which becomes an important detail "did i remember?" which allows us to know what had happened twenty years ago.
• Analyzes how the tone of the text is ironical. irony is presented in a stressed form, mainly in scene of restaurant.
• Analyzes how the narrator was poor and could hardly keep body and soul together. the writer uses epithets to achieve the ironical effect.
• Analyzes how the reader learns more about the main characters. they are presented both directly and indirectly. the male character is the ingenuous one.
• Analyzes how the narrator is an educated man, polite, from a good family tradition.
• Concludes that the woman is smart, experienced, selfish, cold, without any feeling except to fulfill her desires.
• Analyzes how the writer makes the tone vary in the words of the characters. the woman's tone never changes while she cheats the host and orders the most expensive dishes.
• Analyzes the suspense developed through the words of the narrator from the very beginning.