ANALYSIS (THE USE OF FORCE by William Carlos Williams)

• ·         Based on the title “The Use of Force”, the main character of the story uses force to be able to do his job as a doctor.

• ·         The literary piece uses first person point of view. The author was the one who narrates the story because he uses I, me, and my.

• ·         The main character of the story is the doctor who was asked to diagnose the illness of a child. The character’s name was not mentioned but the author uses name as doctor, mother and daughter.

• ·         The setting was on the kitchen area of the patient’s house. The setting was not described thoroughly by the author also the story the description of the characters.

• ·         The style of the story was simply narrating to what happened to the main character. The character uses dialogue but we can see that the author doesn’t used (“”) quotation marks to highlight the exchanging of thoughts of the characters of the story.

• ·         The conflict of the story is the “man to man” conflict; the main character had a conflict with his patient behaviour.

• ·          The story also shows that the main character has also had a conflict with himself (man to himself conflict) which is showed in the story when the doctor fight his urge to do bad things to his patient.
• HYDEE LAUZON BUEZA