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The Furnished Room O.Henry I. Plot: A young man came to someplace located in the northeast of New York to find her lover. In the area, most of the people were restless. They were homeless. On the other hand, they had a hundred homes. Because they flited from furnished room. Finally, he found a hotel to stay after ringing the bell at the twelfth one. The housekeeper took advantage of every opportunities to make money. She showed him a room at the third floor. He was so tired that he wanted to take possession at once. He counted out the money. When she moved away, he put, for the thousandth time, the question that he carried at the end of his tongue:” Do you know the girl······He listed his lover’s features. The answer is no. Always no. It was for five months that he had been looking for her. So much time spent by day in questioning managers, agents, schools and choruses; by night among the audiences of theaters from all-star casts down to music halls so low that he dreaded to find what he most hoped for. He who had loved her best had tried to find her. He was sure that since her disappearance from home this great, water-girl city held her somewhere, but it was like a monstrous quicksand, shifting its particles constantly, with no foundation, its upper granules of today buried tomorrow in ooze and slime. Then he looked around the room only to find much cheap and old furnish. There were many traces of other guests’ occupation. Suddenly, some familiar smell came into his nose. He recognized that it was hers.” she has been in this room”. He cried. Soon, he rummaged everywhere to find more proof in third room but in vain. Then, suddenly, as he rested there, the room was filled with the strong, sweet odor of mignonette. It came as upon a single buffet of wind with such sureness and fragrance and emphasis that it almost seemed a living visitant. And the man cried aloud:” what, dear?” as if he had been called, and sprang up and faced about. The rich odor clung to him and wrapped him around. He reached out his arms for it, all his senses for the time confused and commingled. Then he thought of the housekeeper. He asked her who had been in that room. But she hid his lover’s suicide. His hope drained his faith. He turned out the light, turned the gas full on again, and laid himself gratefully upon the bed.He ended his life in the room as her lover did. II. Point of view: Third person point of view III. Character: 1.The young man: He is young, has searched for his sweetheart for five months. We can see his insistence. But he is tired, not only momentarily tired physically, but spiritually weary. In this story, when he rested, he smells the scent of mignonette what his sweetheart has. But actually, the scent is his imagination. And the landlady also tells him that the girl has not been this room. Then, he suicides in despair. It reflects his beauty of human nature to infatuation. 2. The landlady: She conceals the facts that the young man’s sweetheart has not been there, is dead. She lies in order to rent out her room. Her lie makes the young man suicides in despair and maybe the fact save the young man. So, all these shows that the landlady is greedy and selfish. IV. Setting: In 1945, the short story was published. At that time, American society was affected by the second world war. The lower class citizens are homeless and innocent. They are always fooled by fate. However, the petty bourgeois are greedy, selfish, cruel and merciless. V. Style: O. Henry uses a coincidental ending to the story, which shocks readers and makes readers unexpected. Writer uses irony to reveal hypocrisy and subversion and squeezing between human. The story shows Gothic style, gloomy, odd and horrific. Of course, maybe this is a little exaggerated. According to the feeling of the young man on the carpet, the carpet was compared to vegetables, lichens, moss and organism, which was more and more exaggerated and absurd, as if the young man was stepped on a large green worm, disgusting and tiresome. VI. Theme: love as demonic VII. Symbol: The room in its disorder, its squalor, its musty smell, its rubbish and debris of nameless lives, reflects the great city. His sweetheart has been lost reflects all humanity seems to become degraded and brutalized. The sordid surroundings mean to the hero and the odor of mignonette means to him. It isn’t an object, it is abstract, and nobody can prove its existence. Although you can smell it, it can’t be touched and seen. After the man is told that the girl has not been there and after he has been unable to find the source of the odor, the room itself supposed to become a sort of overwhelming symbol for the futility of his effort.