Stylistic Analysis. Doctor in the House

Doctor in the house is written by Richard Gordon a real ships surgeon and an assistant editor in chief of the British Medical Journal. The tier deals with describing process of psychometric tests, difficulties provided by them and students feelings and thoughts before and after examinations. The general slant of the story is quite tense, gloomy and even a bit depressed. It makes the Reader feel anxious and it forces us to be in possession of a disagreeable sense of a heavy load because we worry closely the narrators success at the exam. The author manages to create such an atmosphere by an abundant use of similes.He comp ares examinations with a serious contest, an eight-round fight, a final breathless sprint and even with death. All these devices leave a truly vivid description of the students anticipating such an unpleasant inevitability as the exam. By means of the authors language our imagination depicts a distinct and colorful picture proving the effectiveness of the styl istic devices in Gordons description. Its hard to believe but suspense is even growing from one paragraph to some other turning retributory an investigation of a mans knowledge into judgment day.Also usher The Man With The Scar AnalysisAnd to my mind this allusion is chosen nonrandom but to emphasize a meaning of the exam for shtupdidates. And Gordon asserts that if an examinee loses his nerve hes analogous a cow in a slow up and soon he will be finished. But not all students act like this and conditioned that the author focuses his attention on describing different psychological types of candidates. He pictures them with common understandable vocabulary which refers us to life and makes the portraits very convincing.At the same time Gordon adds some tiny but significant details like the Nonchalant lolling back on the chair, the Franky Worried tearing his invitation, the Crammer fondling his books, the Old Stager treating like a photographer at a wedding. Besides an attentive Reader could notice how skillfully the author names these types underlining their essences and expressing them shortly just in one word. Meanwhile despite of a psychological type everybody can find no peace after the exam not knowing anything about their results. And the author utterly conveys students sense of futility and despair considering these days to be black.It helps the Reader to guess how difficult to cope with such a condition when you are numbed, unable to realize what has happened and everything you can is just hope for the better. This is precisely what the author says about pernicious aftereffect of exams. So as I said the suspense is still growing especially when the results are about to come out. Gordon gives us a very unusual and picturesque image of the speechless humankind where everything isnt going to stir, not a leaf. The Reader has already got used to a high stronghold of the story and this sudden stop makes a great contrast in mood between the full tex t and the last part.But this stillness is fake the narrators heart is on a head up of leaping out of his chest. The description of the heros state is highly emotional. His wet palms, burning face, thump in his ears keeps the Reader in so great tension which disappears at once after just one word pass. And a long-awaited relief covers the narrator and the reader because the author ideally coped with his main task he hold our attention during the whole narration compelling us to feel we are inside of this story.