Analyzing Katharine Brush's Birthday Party

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The story “Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush is sad and heart touching. The story is about a woman surprising her husband with a birthday cake at a restaurant, but sadly he neglects the surprise and talks down to her. He says these unkind and nasty things to her to make her cry, but in my opinion, the woman thought it would be a nice and thoughtful thing to do for her husbands’ birthday. She was clearly mistaken. The author attempts to make readers feel sad and angry towards the story. The details, actions, and the language she uses throughout describing the scene in the restaurant are overwhelming sad; this description contributes to the mood the reader is in, and how it makes them feel. “Crying quietly and heartbrokenly and hopelessly,