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Salvatore is good? how can we say that?
10th question

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The title of a literary piece generally represents its theme, a particular character or sometimes symbolically refers to something deeper than what it actually says. As far as our present story “Salvatore” is concerned, the author has not had much trouble, it seems, finding a suitable title for his story. In fact, the title here represents the protagonist of the story, Salvatore, a fifteen year old boy when the story begins and a middle aged man with a wife and two children at the end of the story.

Maugham’s short story here has actually been a biographical narrative of a common fisher boy from an Italian island. It is a narration of events in a chronological order, perhaps the simplest form for a story.

At the beginning of the story, the narrator describes Salvatore’s life before joining the military service — how Salvatore passed his days lying about in the beach, his expertise at swimming, his love and care for his two younger brothers and his love affair with a girl who lived on the Grande Marina. Then the story goes on to tell us how homesick he was during his service on foreign lands, how he wanted to co

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