The plot of the story starts with the development of events, omitting such parts as introduction and exposition. The events in the story run rather dynamic displaying the changes which occur in the attitude of the children toward their mother. The climax of the story can be indicated at the point, when the children have read the letter from their mother’s lover, which produced a dramatic effect on their attitude towards her. The climax occurs at this point in the story: “There was none, but only under the words, “The man who adores you,” the name “Henry.” Their father's name was Rene.”. On this sharpest moment of the story the tension reaches its highest point. After this point the tension slowly releases but the author gives no definite answers. The author only implicitly gives some hits that can be driven from the characters actions: “He stepped forward, quickly picked up the letters and threw them pell-mell back into the drawer. Then he closed the curtains of the bed… the son slowly left his armchair, and without looking again at the mother upon whom he had passed sentence, severing the tie that united her to son and daughter…” and words “Let us now retire, sister.”. On the basis of the character’s actions that follow the climax of the story and that serve as an anticlimax to it we may derive our own conclusions of the events.

          The types of speech employed by the author of the analysed extract are narration, description and parts of dialog. But the given passage is rather a narration than a description with insertions of the direct speech. The descriptions provided by the author are mainly used to describe the setting of the events and the atmosphere and effect that the death of the woman produces: “The ticking of the clock, hidden in the shadow, could be heard distinctly, and through the open window drifted in the sweet smell of hay and of woods, together with the soft moonlight. No other noise could be heard over the land except the occasional croaking of the frog or the chirping of some belated insect. An infinite peace, a divine melancholy, a silent serenity surrounded this dead woman, seemed to be breathed out from her and to appease nature itself.”.