PRESENTATION

A TELEPHONE CALL

GROUP 3
NURRAHMAT HIDAYAT
MUHAMMAD ALBAR MAULANA
HASBULLAH HANAPI
MUHAMMAD ZIKIR IRMIN
PLOT
• The story tell about a woman when she was waiting a
telephone call from her boyfriend.
• The main events in this story are arranged irregularly and the
story narrated with flashback use.
• The girl always repeated count up to five hundred by fives
while she waiting the telephone rings.
• The conflict that occurred in this story is a emotional conflict, so
she fight with herself but anti-climax it is not resolved yet.
• In climax, the main character decided to call his boyfriend if he
not call her.
• The ending of this story is indeterminate
SETTING
• A TELEPHONE CALL using setting place, time, and social
environment.
• The story happen in living room on The girl’s house and also
happen in at late afternoon.
• The setting didn’t too affect to main character but there are parts
affect the main character which is The Environment and Religion
value.
• There is social forces which make the woman always feeling
guilty and unhappy because her social life and her belief.
 CHARACTERS
• The main character is “I”, she is not confident and impatient. Also there is a minor
character “he”.
• The main character lived alone and she has a boyfriend who had a work that keeps
him busy all day. She finds herself in an uncertain and desperate position.
• She talks to God by praying to him and asks him if God can help her. She is a
doubtful woman and she even becomes suspicious to her boyfriend.
• The conflict begin when she’s waiting for her boyfriend’s call but after 2 hours, it
never happened. It didn’t resolved because instead of calling her boyfriend to throw
her anxiety and suspicion, she’s doing something useless.
• The use of word ‘darling’ on several occasions in the story and the uncertainly the
narrator is insecure in herself. She is trying to normalize a situation through memory
yet is uncertain of whether she was called darling on occasion. The word ‘darling’ can
provide her with some security.
• The only developing character in this story is the main character. At first she still
rational but then she was getting too far and becoming so suspicious toward her
boyfriend.
• At the end, the narrator continues to be overly concerned about whether her
boyfriend will ring her or not. She has learnt nothing nor has she allowed rationality to
remain in her mind.
POINT OF VIEW
• The point of view used in this short
story is the First Person.
• This short story is a monologue
• There are some pronouns that used in
this story such as I, me, and we.
SYMBOLISM
THERE ARE 3 SYMBOLS IN THIS STORY
• Telephone is described as "black and rooted to the
wall". This in many ways mirrors the mood that the
narrator finds herself in.
• The clock becomes a symbolic reminder of the man
not respecting his promise to call the female
narrator, and thus of the end of their relationship.
• God is introduced in this story to give a sense that
the narrator is reliant on a force that is greater than
herself.
IMAGERY
THE SENTENCES THAT STAND OUT:

“why can’t that telephone ring? Why can’t it, couldn’t you ring ? ah,
please, couldn’t you? You damned, ugly, shiny thing. It would hurt
you to ring, wouldn’t it? Oh, that would hurt you. Damn you, I’ll pull
your filthy roots out of the wall, I’ll smash your smug black face in
little bits. Damn you to hell.”
TONE
We can see the tone of the main character through the
choice of words in the story
• Dorothy puts some rude expression and wishes of
the main character to show how obsessive the
woman is.
• We can see it through the thirteenth and fourteenth
paragraph, the repetition used in the story become
the symbol of obsessive and impatience
IRONY
• The man promise to Dorothy that he
will call her at 4 P.M. , but the man did
not call Dorothy at all
• It made Dorothy pained till she become
obsessed from waiting phone call from
the man
THEMES
The main themes of the short story are that
obsession, social obsession, social etiquette,
and pains of love.
• Obsession because Dorothy is waiting for a
phone call which never comes
• Social etiquette explored in the short story
that the author focus on the way women are
expected to behave in relationship
• The pains of love explained that the female
narrator’s triggered by her love of suffering.