Short StoriesThe Fat Boy Owen Marshall After You My Dear Alphonse Shirley Jackson
... mum) Limited omniscient 3rd person narration: Which reveals Mrs Wilson’s character, we have no direct thoughts to the other characters Mrs Wilson is revealed through dialogue and her thoughts Boyd and Johnny are revealed through dialogue Idea you cannot judge people by the colour of their skin Mrs Wilson believes that Boyd is poor and tries to give him some of her family’s old clothes. The attitude of what happened to the Boyd is strange and Johnny puts his mums behaviour off as being ‘screwy sometimes’ they didn’t understand what had happened. A crucial moment in this short story is when Mrs Wilson takes away the gingerbread from the boys as she is unhappy with the way the consideration with Boyd is going. And his ‘lack of gratitude.’ Mrs Wilson changes from a being kind and considerate at the beginning when she offers things to Boyd then sh...