Selected Stories by O.Henry（欧·亨利短篇小说选）（英文版）读后感

作者：欧·亨利

《欧亨利短篇小说精选》是美国作家欧亨利的短篇小说精选著作集，收录了欧亨利所有代表名篇，如《爱的牺牲》《警察与赞美诗》《带家具出租的房间》《麦琪的礼物》《最后一片叶子》等。他的短篇小说构思精巧，风格独特，以表现美国中下层人民的生活、语言幽默、结局出人意料（即“欧亨利式结尾”）而闻名于世。欧亨利的小说通俗易懂，其中无论发生了什么，发生在何处，也无论主人公是何等人物，他的故事写的都是世态人情，并且易有浓郁的美国风味。欧亨利的小说在艺术处理上的特点就在于精彩的“欧亨利式结尾”。情节的发展似乎明明朝着一个方向在发展，结果却永远出于意外。

Selected Stories by O.Henry（欧·亨利短篇小说选）（英文版）在线阅读地址

What a fancy, what an imagination...What impressed me most was the two Thanksgiving gentleman, which made me truly appreciate the charm of human nature.
The story tells of two American gentlemen. One who cant be called a gentleman. He can only be said to be a poor man who has been hungry all the year round. Between them, there is a strange agreement -- the annual Thanksgiving Day.On that day,the poor will sit in the third federal fountain square opposite the pavement next to the east entrance which is on the right side of the bench, wait for the arrival of the old gentleman. Then the old gentleman came with the hungry poor meal. This is a sacred agreement between them. For the old gentleman, a meal is not worth mentioning, but he did find fun from  the help. And the purpose of the poor is not entirely in the meal, more important is to make the old man happy as he wished.This tradition has been lasted for nine years.This is the tenth year of Thanksgiving Day. The poor is on the way to the date site. But something unexpected happened. On the way, the poor meet a residential housekeeper outside a door and the poor can be provided with a big meal. The original residential masters -- two old ladies follow a strange tradition -- at noon the first hungry passerby who passes the door, will let him in and enjoy a hearty meal. Then the poor had a meal before he follow the agreement between old gentleman and him. After the second meal,the poor let his body move and breath.The old gentleman paid the bill, and they left in an opposite direction.
The end of the story is - these two persons are dizzy on the way home.Both of them are sent to the same hospital. The reason for the the poor is because of too much eating , which almost burst his stomach.And the old gentleman who looks like a millionaire but didn’t eat anything for  three days.He is too starving to lay down on the road.
Read this article is like chewing an olive,which is sweet with a hint of sour.It makes people fall in a indifferent smile after ponder a long time.