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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel is a flat character; his function in the story is to react to, and be fooled by, Vera’s elaborate inventions. The keynotes of his personality are nervousness and gullibility. He is...
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The Open Window
In formulating your answer to this question, it is important for you to carefully read the entire story and get a sense of what is taking place. Framton Nuttel has gone to a rural location to cure...
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The Open Window
Mr. Framton Nuttel is quite a nervous person to begin with. When he first arrives at the Sappletons', he worries about saying the right thing to Vera, something that would "flatter" her without...
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The Open Window
In Saki's short story "The Open Window," Mrs. Sappleton's self-possessed, creative niece, Vera, takes the opportunity to frighten the neurotic, eccentric Framton Nuttel by telling him a simple...
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The Open Window
The reader discovers that Vera is a convincing liar (and probably with a lot of experience!), since she tells one lie right after another without flinching. If neuvrotic Mr Nuttel was indeed an...
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The Open Window
Framton Nuttel has come to the country to spend some time alone because he is suffering from a "nervous ailment." He wants to spend his time alone so that he can calm his nerves, but his...
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The Open Window
Although Saki never intended the readers of this story to take his yarn seriously, he maintains interest through vivid character portrayal and anticipation of events. One can see Vera setting the...
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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
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'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
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
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 the...
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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 sense...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
In Saki's celebrated short story "The Open Window," Mrs. Sappleton's mischievous, imaginative fifteen-year-old niece Vera is introduced to the neurotic, gullible Framton Nuttel. When Vera answers...
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The Open Window
There is plenty of evidence in “The Open Window” that the ironically named Vera has the habit of making up stories. Within the framework of a comparatively brief story, she makes up two, one for...
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The Open Window
Saki’s short story “The Open Window” concerns a nervous young man called Framton Nuttel who has been given a letter of introduction by his sister to Mrs. Sappleton, a woman he has never met. As the...
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The Open Window
Vera, Mrs. Sappleton's niece, has told the anxious Framton Nuttel quite a story about the open window. She explains that Mrs. Sappleton's husband and brothers had gone hunting three years ago and...
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Mrs. Sappleton mentions that she sees her deceased husband and brothers, with their dog, walking back toward the house. Vera, Mrs. Sappleton's niece, told Framton a story before Mrs. Sappleton...
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The Open Window
Situational irony is a literary device whereby something occurs that is the exact opposite of what we'd normally expect to happen. In "The Open Window," the reader, along with Framton Nuttel,...
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The Open Window
What's unusual about the plot is its dramatic twist right at the end. This is a clear example of what's called situational irony, where the reader's expectations of what is to happen are turned...
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The Open Window
When Mrs. Sappleton sees her husband and two younger brothers returning from a day of shooting, she brightens into what the narrator calls "alert attention," and she is evidently glad to see them....
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The Open Window
One example of irony comes right at the end of the story. Framton Nuttel has run out of the house, terrified by what he thinks are ghost people and a ghost dog. The audience may expect that Vera...
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The Open Window
Vera is a fifteen-year-old girl who has a vivid intelligence and must do a lot of reading. She is mischievous, but she is not too much different from girls her age who like to play practical jokes...
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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
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
"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...
