mrs bixby and colonels’coat

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Mrs. Bixby and her husband, a dentist, live in a flat. Once a month,

for years, Mrs. Bixby gets on the train at Pennsylvania Station andtravels to Baltimore, supposedly visiting her old aunt; in fact, she is

having an affair with the Colonel. One day, Mrs. Bixby gets a rare and

expensive present from the Colonel: a black, lustrous, and quite

extravagant mink coat. A letter from the Colonel that came in the box

with the coat informs that they can no longer see each other, and

suggests she tells her husband the mink coat was a present from her

aunt for Christmas

She goes to a pawnbroker and pawns the coat for fifty dollars. The

pawnbroker gives her a pawn ticket, which she declines to mark withany kind of name or description. The ticket guarantees her right to

claim the coat at any time. She tells her husband that she found the

pawn ticket in the taxi, and he decides it would be best if he

redeemed the ticket, in spite of Mrs. Bixby's pleas.


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The next day, Mr. Bixby goes to the pawn shop to redeem the

ticket and claim the object it stands for. Mrs. Bixby is excited

about it and rushes to her husband's office after he's claimedit. Just before she opens her eyes to see it, he says, "It's real

mink!" She then opens her eyes to find it is mink, but that it is

merely a small, mangy stole, and not her coat.

Mrs. Bixby is initially angry at the pawnbroker, thinking that

he cheated her and kept the coat. But as Mrs. Bixby leaves her

husband's office a few moments later, Miss Pulteney, the

secretary, walks proudly out of the office, wearing the rare,black mink coat that the Colonel gave to Mrs. Bixby.


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Exposition

Mrs. Bixby, after having an 8 year affair with the

Colonel, is given an expensive fur coat as a parting

gift.


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Rising Action

Mrs. Bixby realizes her husband will question where

the coat came from.

While on the train, she comes up with a plan to keep

the coat.

She takes the coat to the pawnbroker.

She pretends to have found the ticket in the taxi.Mr. Bixby will pick it up on Monday.


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Climax

Her husband gives her a mink scarf instead of the

coat.

Falling Action

Mrs. Bixby tries to act grateful.

Mr. Bixby says he will be home late.


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Resolution

Mrs. Bixby see Mr. Bixbys assistant wearing her furcoat.

Inference: Mrs. Bixby left the note from the Colonel in

the coat pocket.

Inference: Mr. Bixby may be having an affair with his

assistant


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Third Person Limited Omniscient

The narrator knows the thoughts of Mrs. Bixby.


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What goes around comes around.

Whats in the dark comes to light.

Cheaters never win.


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Mrs. Bixby

Likes mink fur

Deceitful

Lecherous

CunningA big vigorous woman with a wet mouth.

Mr. Bixby

Good man

A dentist called Cyril

Hard working

Small and neat and bony

Clever


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The colonel

Wealthy

Had no family

Had no wife

Like hunting and horses book Lived in charming house of town and has a few loyal

servants.

Huge and bristly

Mrs. Pulteney

Old lady


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TIME

1) Once a month, always on Friday afternoons

Mrs Bixby would board the train at Pennsylvania Station and travel toBaltimore to visit her old aunt.

PLACES

1) In a smallish apartment somewhere in New York city.

Mr. Bixby and Mrs. Bixby lived there.

2) Baltimore

The place where Aunt Maude lived in

3) Pennsylvania Station Mrs. Bixby would board at the station and travel to Baltimore to visit

her aunt.

4) Pawnshop

Place where Mrs. Bixby pawn the coat for fifty dollars.


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Adultery

Irony

Humorous

mrs bixby and colonels’coat

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