In the two short stories, The Fly written by Katherine Mansfield and A Great Day Written by Frank Sargeson, the authors use different ways to make the stories entertaining and thought-provoking. This is what I am going to write about in the following essayThe author Katherine Mansfield, who wrote the short story ÃÂThe flyÃÂ, uses different ways to make the story entertaining and thought-provoking. The short story although lacking in humor itself can be found rather entertaining as the author cleverly uses symbols and characters actions to do this. Character actions such as the way that ÃÂMr. WoodifieldÃÂ and the ÃÂbossÃÂ (whom we never find out the name of) seem to forget things easily, normally the most important things are forgotten and the little things remembered. For example when the old man ÃÂMr. WoodifieldÃÂ is talking to the boss he says he had some thing to say (which he forgot), then finally he remembers at tells ÃÂthe bossÃÂ.
Then this forgetfulness is also shown by the character ÃÂThe bossÃÂ when he gets sidetracked by the murder of the fly and forgets about his sons death which he had just been upset about, but still he remembers about the least important thing, the fly.
The story is made entertaining, if even in slightly cruel way. This is portrayed by the murder of the fly, caused by the bosses own curiosity of life and death shown by the way that the ÃÂbossÃÂ rescues the fly and saves its life, the tortures it by simple curiosity resulting with actions which cause its innocent death. This is also entertaining because you see a older man ÃÂ the boss ÃÂ fascinated by the results of his own actions, which causes him to realize that his own actions result in the death of a...