Read "The Furnished Room" by O. Henry. Use what you have read to write an essay that provides
an analysis of how the author's choices concerning how he structured specific parts of the text
contribute to the story's overall structure and aesthetic impact
As a starting point, you may want to consider Henry's choices concerning how he began the story
how he ended it, and what choice he made about the resolution of the plot. Analyze how these
choices contributed to the overall structure of the short story and its aesthetic impact on the reader

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive