Literary Analysis Of Mrs Bixby And The Colonel's Coat

The excerpt that I have chose for this assignment is taken from a short story entitled “Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat” by the famous writer named Roald Dahl. Basically, the short story tells a story on how Mrs Bixby tries to sneak in the mink coat that she received from the Colonel, the man who she had an affair for eight years as a parting giftinto her house without her husband realizing the fact that she has been cheating on him with the Colonel.
The first thing that I noticed while studying the excerpt is the types of point of views used. In the excerpt, we can see that the type of point of views used is a third person point of view. The first line of the excerpt, “Mrs Bixby picked up the envelope that was still lying in the box.”(Page 64- Dahl, 1959)are one of the examples of evidence that helps in indicating the usage of a third person point of view, as the line shows that someone else is telling the story to the reader. That particular line showed that there is a narrator that helps in describing the situation there.In my perspective, this manner of description usually happens when a narrator is there to narrate the story. This is due to the fact that the name of the character “Mrs Bixby” is used in the

“Two and a half hours later, Mrs Bixby stepped off the train at Pennsylvania Station and walked quickly to the exit.” (Page 65- Dahl, 1959), the reason for why I think that this is a place deixis is because as we can see from the first half of the story in the excerpt, it looks like Mrs Bixby is at some place outside of New York and according to the story, once every month usually on Friday, she will travelled up to Baltimorefrom Pennsylvania Station to visit her Aunt Maude and therefore I am assuming that the first place or location is Baltimore. Here, I can assume that there is a shift of location or place from Baltimore to New