Weekend is a short story by the writer Fay Weldon. The story follows the events of a family on a weekend vacation in the countryside where the reader is given a view of the Protagonist, Martha's life. It is one of endless hardship and toil for her uncaring husband Martin. As the story quickly unfolds, it becomes evident that Martha's strained life has taken its toll on her mind and that she is almost crazy; and Fay does well to end the piece with a dramatic and thought provoking conclusion. The ending to the piece is very dramatic, perhaps not on the level of a massive explosion or a shocking event however it does make the reader pause for thought at the extensity of what it presents and the writer used many techniques to make the reader appreciate this. .
Everything in this piece is dominated by the issues that run throughout. Underlying themes of sexism, gender inequalities, body image and gender stereotyping are presented are presented very strongly, making its presence very felt with the reader.
Another technique used by the writer to improve the last paragraphs effectiveness is that the start of the end paragraph is structured quite slow like the rest of the story whilst the rest of it is structured at a much faster pace. Where the rest of the story takes maybe a line to describe something, the end paragraph is more a chain of events in quick succession that is thrown at the reader. .
This is generally a more shocking structuring and because so many events happen in succession, the reader is made to think about the ending. The effect is created by the use of speech at the start of the paragraph:.
""Oh don't do that," said Katie, "do just sit down, Martha, you make us all feel bad."".
This speech is not shouted or exclaimed which suggests that it is calmly said. This creates a very slow pace to the sentence which is then in contrast to the rest of the paragraph, which is a quick fire chain of events that happen.
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