The story under analysis is called “My last dollar” written by Stephen Leacock.

Theme: inability to speak out your mind

Idea: if you want a debt back you should ask about it directly, you should speak out
your mind

Genre: short story.

The plan of narration: not chronological and fragmented, as we can observe

flashbacks about how it all started with one dollar and then narrators thoughts

Time and space: USA, as it is told about the American dollar in the text.

Compositional design:

Plot structure: is closed as all elements can be identified

1) Exposition: we get to know the main characters and the situation.
2) Story/ complication : the plot story -description of events and thought of narrator
3) Climax: «I want them to speak out»- the moment when narrator realises that in is
important to speak out your mind
4) Denouement: the author asks the reader of the story to leave this copy around so
that his friend would see it and return him a dollar.

I believe that the narration is from the 1st person (author is the main character and the
speaker).
As for the types of narration, we can see some examples of direct speech and
narrative proper6 inner monologues

emotional atmosphere to be ironic, despite author is a narrator, his attitude to the

situation isn’t serious.

Characters: we can see 2 main characters in the story - narrator and his friend.
Narrator is obviously psychotic and nervous person, he is also a miser, and Todd (his
friend) is easy going person who doesn’t care about little things.

Vocabulary: neutral.

Stylistic devices
I found a few stylistic devices in this text. First of all I guess there is a repetition “he
owes me a dollar” and this repetition is throughout the text. Also there are lots of
graphons here. “ we can see the words “know”, “there”, also “it is possible indeed”
and “a back to honesty”. Also I found a rhetorical question here “ you would think a
thing like that would have reminded him wouldn’t you?” And a metaphor “this side
of the grave”.