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The Open Window
The climax is the most dramatic moment in the story; it could also be called a turning point. It is the moment when the main conflict of the story reaches its most tense moment. The main conflict...
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The Open Window
In Saki's celebrated short story "The Open Window," Mrs. Sappleton's niece, Vera, is introduced to the neurotic Framton Nuttel, who arrives at Mrs. Sappleton's country home in hopes of resting his...
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The Open Window
The climax is the highest point of tension in a story and the moment when a problem is faced or solved. In Saki's celebrated short story "The Open Window," the exposition includes Mr. Nuttel...
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The Open Window
Vera's interactions with Mr. Nuttel and her aunt, Mrs. Sappleton, show that Vera is an intelligent and observant young woman with a strong imagination and an undetected malicious streak. Vera...
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The Open Window
At the beginning of the story, Vera introduces herself to Framton Nuttel, who intends to meet Vera's aunt, Mrs. Sappleton. After asking Framton several questions, Vera discovers that he is a...
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The Open Window
There are several interesting and key structural choices that Saki makes in this story. The first is to begin the story by making the reader aware of Framton Nuttel's nervous condition. In the...
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The Open Window
When the eccentric, neurotic Framton Nuttel arrives at Mrs. Sappleton's home with a letter of introduction, he is greeted by her self-possessed niece, Vera. After Vera asks several probing...
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The Open Window
Vera, Mrs. Sappleton's niece, enjoys lying, and so what she says about her aunt is not necessarily true. In fact, in this story she lies about her openly. Vera tells the nervous Mr. Nuttel that her...
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel thinks that Mrs. Sappleton is mad because he believes the totally fictitious story that her niece, Vera, tells him about dead relatives and her aunt's refusal to accept the deaths....
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel is depicted as a neurotic, easy-frightened man who travels the unfamiliar countryside to rest his nerves. When Framton arrives at Mrs. Sappleton's home, her niece Vera greets him at...
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The Open Window
Saki's choice to name this character Vera is ironic because she is anything but truthful. First, she invents this crazy story about the tragic death of her aunt's husband and brothers, claiming...
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The Open Window
Vera's repeated use of the word "dreadful"—which she employs twice in her fictitious description of the sad fate of her aunt's husband and younger brothers—certainly adds to the mood and the...
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The Open Window
Paragraph 14 of “The Open Window” builds suspense for the reader through a variety of ways. First, we must consider some background before this paragraph. The reader understands Vera to be...
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The Open Window
Upon meeting Framton Nuttel, Mrs. Sappleton’s mischievous niece Vera creates a tragic story regarding her aunt's large French window in hopes of scaring the neurotic stranger. Vera anticipates...
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel is depicted as a neurotic hypochondriac who heads to the country in hopes of a "nerve cure." Given Framton's peculiar, neurotic nature, he is already gullible; he's susceptible to...
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The Open Window
Vera's initial direction of Framton's attention toward the French window is quite explicit. She says that he must be wondering why they keep it wide open on an October afternoon. Then she tells him...
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The Open Window
Nuttel visits the countryside as part of what the text calls a "nerve cure." Nuttel has apparently had some sort of unspecified nervous breakdown. He believes rest and quiet in a rural setting will...
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The Open Window
Vera and Mr. Nuttel are similar in that neither of them wants to be there. Nuttel doesn't know how to make conversation with a teenager and Vera doesn't want to have to play hostess. She is...
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The Open Window
A climax of a story is defined as the turning point of the plot and the moment of highest tension in the narrative. In Saki's short story "The Open Window," the mischievous Vera concocts an...
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The Open Window
"The Open Window" is a humorous short story, and part of the humor stems from the irony at work within it. In the story, a man named Framton Nuttel is introducing himself around the neighborhood as...
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel's purpose in sojourning in the country and for calling on the Sappletons are covered quickly in two passages. When he presents himself he is greeted by fifteen-year-old Vera...
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The Open Window
Vera lies and makes up the story because she is good at it and it is entertaining for her. She is quite skilled as an actress and as the author tells us quite skilled at "romance at short...
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The Open Window
One of Saki's best-loved stories, "The Open Window" exemplifies what one critic says is that indolent, delightfully amusing world where nothing is ever solved, nothing altered, a world in short...
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The Open Window
"I know how it will be," his sister had said when he was preparing to migrate to this rural retreat; "you will bury yourself down there and not speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be...
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The Open Window
A frame story, the ironic "The Open Window" is dependent upon its main character, Vera, for its development. The other characters are merely present as the audience for Vera's ingenious fable. In...
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The Open Window
Vera is creative. After she learns that Mr. Nuttel does not know anything about her aunt, Vera knows she can say anything and he will not be the wiser. She quickly comes up with her elaborate story...
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The Open Window
A paradox is defined as anyone or anything that is self-contradictory. A paradox can also be something that seems absurd but might express a possible element of truth. Saki's short story "The Open...
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The Open Window
Exposition- The setting of the story is the Sappleton residence. The characters are Framton Nuttel, a nervous young man seeking a rest cure in the country; Vera, a mischievous fifteen year old with...
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel is a highly-strung young man. He suffers from a nervous disorder which is apparently so serious that his doctor has advised him to spend some time in the country for some much-needed...
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The Open Window
In "The Open Window," Vera gains the confidence to fabricate her tale about her aunt's brothers and husband after Framton Nuttel says he knows "[H]ardly a soul" in the area. When Framton first...
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The Open Window
If the tragedy Vera intends to tell Framton Nuttel had actually happened, it would certainly have been known about and talked of all over the county. She has to establish that Framton is a complete...
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The Open Window
In Saki's short story "The Open Window", the character of Vera is a young teenage girl currently staying at her aunt's house (Mrs. Stappleton), and who is described as someone whose specialty is...
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The Open Window
It is important to remember how Framton's opinion of Mrs. Sappleton, a woman he has never met before, has been coloured completely by Vera's account of why the window is open and what supposedly...
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The Open Window
The character trait that best describes Framton Nuttel is neurotic. In the second paragraph the author writes: Privately he doubted more than ever whether these formal visits on a succession of...
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The Open Window
The answer, however, will depend on your worldview and personal opinion. If you find Vera's actions compelling, you may come to the conclusion that her practical joke is merely humorous. If,...
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The Open Window
This is an excellent question for evaluating the character of Vera in Saki's short story "The Open Window." From the very beginning of the story, we know enough about Vera to form expectations...
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The Open Window
The character of Framton Nuttel is characterized, directly and indirectly, as a man who was frazzled by a nervous condition from which he has not entirely recovered. He doubted more than ever...
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel has taken a trip into the country, at his sister's insistence, to cure a nervous condition. Mr. Nuttel, his sister fears will remain isolated and alone if he stays at home, so she...
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The Open Window
Vera only asks Framton one direct question about his knowledge of the people in the area and one direct question about her aunt. "Do you know many of the people round here?" asked the niece, when...
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The Open Window
There are a number of techniques authors use for creating suspense, some are vocabulary, dialogue, setting, mood and tone. The main mechanism for building suspense in "The Open Window" is through a...
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel is completely taken in by Vera’s story about the “great tragedy.” The girl’s last words are interrupted by the arrival of her aunt, whose conversation only reinforces the...
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The Open Window
Vera first tells Framton Nuttel the "great tragedy" of how aunt's husband and younger brother were lost on a hunting trip. She claims they left through the open window and her aunt still thinks...
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The Open Window
In Saki's short story "The Open Window", the character of Vera is a 15 year old girl who seems to enjoy mischief in the form of telling stories that cause fear. As the story reads, Romance at...
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The Open Window
This is a great question to consider, because really, there are two ways of answering this. Firstly, we can say that Framton Nuttel is the perfect victim for Vera's ingenuity and skill in...
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The Open Window
In The Open Window, the rising action occurs as Frampton Nuttel arrives at the Sappleton home and is told the story by Vera, Mrs. Sappleton's niece. She explains to him in great detail that the...
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The Open Window
The best part of Saki's story is its surprising conclusion when poor Mr. Nuttel thinks dead people are walking into the room, and we realize how Vera has entertained herself at his expense. In some...
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The Open Window
In Saki's "The Open Window," there are actually two settings: The home of the Stappleton's where Framton Nuttel sits captive to the "tale of tragedy" that Vera weaves. In this room, where "an...
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The Open Window
Saki's story "The Open Window" is a great study on the social conventions of the Edwardians, as it presents the plot within a set of circumstances that are very unique to that era (1901-1910, think...
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The Open Window
The setting of "The Open Window" is absolutely crucial in conveying Saki's ironic intent. The story takes place in a large, comfortable, Edwardian middle-class house in the depths of the English...
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The Open Window
The skillful narrator of "romance at short notice," Mrs. Stappleton's niece Vera, upon her perception of Framton Nuttel's nervous condition and lack of acquaintance with the area and its populace,...
