"The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush uses a series of literary devices to develope her short story. The short story is very descriptive and developed to show the main point of the story. She focuses a lot on the detail and being able to create an image on the readers mind. The short story is full of descriptive detail. She incorporates specific adjectives that express a couple just having a simple meal. As she gets farther down, she starts describing the appearance of both the man and the women and then leads on to telling that it's a special occassion. Words like "self-satisfied,round, and fadingly" are all positive connotations. The second paragraph opens up with the scene that is about to happen. The scene is going to lead to
