著者

小日向 哲

出版者

東京工芸大学

雑誌

東京工芸大学芸術学部紀要 (ISSN:13418696)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.85-90, 2000-03-31

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In our daily discourse, we are rather involvrd, sometimes, in the private affairs as third persons, being mystified by the party concerned. We know nothing at all about them, but the conversation grows and snowballs to an extent that we get so impatient in our minds that we are absolutely unfit for any and everything. It is all over up with us. The leading figure in the story, Down at the Dinghy, who overheard a couple of women's blamable and confidential talk in whispers, being hidden secretly somewhere, under the table, misunderstood their real intention even angelically only to result in a happy settlement by the aid of the mother of the figure, Lionel, who was an only four-year-old boy. This essay intends to trace methodically the minute revelation of 'It' in the story named above.