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Diction And Vivid Imagery In Katharine Brush's Birthday Party

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In her short Story, “ Birthday Party” Katharine Brush uses diction and vivid imagery to convey her disapproval for traditions of society and lack of appreciation of a wife by her husband.
Brush’s diction is not overly complex. Brush crates a common scene of an “unmistakable married” couple celebrating “the husband’s birthday.” The husband wears glasses and the wife is “fadingly pretty.” By using such descriptions, she makes the situation average and common. The couple becomes an typical American couple. Thus, as the story progresses and the reader is presented with cruel husband, the situation present a male dominated society. The “hotly embarrassed” husband says something “punishing” and “unkind” to his wife. He intentionally hurts her because

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