b) Analyze Saki as a
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short story writer,
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Explanation:
But no. Saki’s stories are almost entirely located within a certain level of upper crust British society; the one dominated by governesses, children who rarely see their parents and manor estates. This is not exclusively true, of course: the feud at the center of the “The Interlopers” takes place entirely within—and over—rugged real estate in the Carpathian Mountains. But for every story located outside the more comfortable environs representative of the lifestyle in which young Hector was raised there are twenty stories exclusively about Oscar Wilde-like wits making their way through Edwardian society with a fierce intent to bring the most ridiculous aspects of that society crashing down around the twits supporting it. In fact, during his lifetime Saki—as well as most contemporary critics—assumed that his series of stories about these types of British gentlemen with names like Reginald and Clovis would be the foundation upon which the author’s legacy as a writer of short fiction would rest.