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The Man with the Scar

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The story takes place in Guatemala. The narrator sees a man with the scar and wants to know more about him. His fellow tells him the following. The man is general of rebellious troops and he is sentenced to death. The night before his execution he plays cards and has a very bad luck. When he is about to be shot, general of the troops asks him if he has the last wish. He wants to see his wife who is waiting him at the prison doors. They meet and the man kills her. He tells the people around that he loves her, and the general enraptured with so noble act lets him go. As for the scar, it turns out that it has nothing to do with any noble act.

The atmosphere of the story is somewhat suspenseful. The author attracts our attention with the description of the man's scar which is unexpected on his face. We start to wonder where the scar comes from. Then we hear a heartbreaking story concerning the man and his wife. We expect that the scar has an origin of some similar story, but it turns out that there is nothing special about it, which creates an effect of defeated expectancy and, hence, frustration.

In order to make our frustration stronger, the author makes a contrast betwwen the language of the story and the one of the narrator. The language of the story is high-flown.

The idea of this story is that sometimes life doesn't meet our expectation, and the reality turns out to be more trivial than we want it to be.
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