In the story, “While the Auto Waits” there is a very prominent twist at the end of the tale, and the reader are left with no explicit moral epilogue. The story tells us a young man who comes across a woman who in gray dress, reading, in a park. The young man makes advances but the woman pertains to be of an upper class and talks something about dissatisfaction with her “rich” life, then leaves him to return to where her driver waits for her in an automobile. The young man follows, and watches her leave the park and enters into a restaurant and begins working as a cashier. He has a look at her book, which she has inadvertently dropped on the grass, and steps up, into his own automobile, where his driver has been waiting for him. From this short story I learned that it doesn’t pay to lie, or be proud, as both the man and the woman from the story lose out in the end. We need to be an honest person and be proud of our own life.
From the short story, the woman is a self-deception, vanity, who is yearning upper class luxury life and the man is Careful, calm and full of calculation, and be good at hide himself. In this conversation both the man and the woman are trying to cover up their own identity, and coincidentally pointed to the each other’s identity, the end is their return to play their real social role, which makes this novel has a strong ironic effect.
For the details, this short contains some interesting points. First of all, it is inclusion that at the beginning the woman read the book and the man picks up the book at the end of the story. The book is a metaphor indicates the rich life. The woman read it pretend her an upper class lady, then with her left the park and goes back to her real life. The book that is the rich life was dropped. Also as the man picks the book up the ironic feeling stands vividly revealed on the paper that the woman had been reading Arabian Nights, which is about betrayal, corruption and deceit. With small see big, the Automobile is the carrier that the author used to describe social false, vanity phenomenon. Satirize people who chase money and glory, reflecting the gap between rich and poor, which bring people psychological distortion. The author wants to criticize unhealthy ways and customs of the society.