Analysis Of The Selfish Giant

In the story, “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde, the Giant is selfish because he does not want anyone on his property or his garden. Throughout the story, the Giant continues to act selfish, which causes winter and all the bad weather to stay during the spring and through the summer. The Giant builds a fence to keep his property secluded from outside world. The Giant is confused at why the bad weather has stayed, because all of his beautiful flowers have sank back in earth and are nowhere to be found. With the winter brewing as the giant goes to sleep, he vaguely wakes up to hear voices and laughter flowing through the air. As he goes out in the back, he sees the children playing. Suddenly the cold damp winter is nowhere to be found, and all …show more content…
The major conflict throughout the story is the harsh winter, and the selfish attitudes of the giant (**). This adds to the story line by having a major conflict against the antagonist. Not only does the author want the reader to focus on the way the Giant is acting, but the snow, frost, hail, and harsh north winds were one of the main parts of the story. These four characters knew the giant was being selfish and he needed to realize that when the kids were at his garden, the kids would vanish and his garden would be beautiful. At the beginning of the story, everyone knew the giant was rude and the kids were trying to cause no harm. In reality, the “selfish” Giant was actually caring and more or less “a giant teddy …show more content…
The Giant was considered a selfish giant because of his rude manners towards the children in his garden (**). In the story, the Giant is considered the antagonist and the protagonist. He is the mean and grumpy on at first, but turn out to be peaceful and eventually rests in peace. The children throughout the story were bright and full of energy until the giant ruined all of their fun (**). In the story, the children were dampered of their fun, but in the end they got their way and had fun with the giant’s support. The snow, frost, hail, and strong north winds were four other characters. The snow and frost comes first and destroys the Giant’s beautiful garden. Then the hail which bangs on the giant’s roof for three hours straight everyday (**). This made the giant realize the hell he was living through. Each, more or less, invite one another to the Giant’s garden which makes his flowers and beautiful land shrink and shrivel up (**). The terrible weather made the giant realize that being selfish was causing it. When the Giants saw the children in his garden one morning, he new the children were the cure to the cold and brutal winters he had been living through. Whether the Giant was dark or bright and happy, the author was always trying to show different signs of