From the bottom of society as a result of O. Henry, the little frustrations often associated with through thick and thin, so to understand their thoughts and feelings, and deeply concerned about their fate. His poor little image of despair, all soaked in his deep sympathy. Through these novels he describes the plight of the little guy, showing their love and hate, happiness and suffering. It is little description of the tragic fate of these works, so that readers can see some of the U.S. bourgeois society the real phenomenon. O. Henry in the description of their tragic fate, often in order to "smile with tears," to soothe the trauma of their hearts, this approach actually looks like bitter humor.
This is a feature of artistic style.
O. Henry called in the master layout posed. His short story is different from the focus on characters and psychological portrait of classical description of the United States short stories, and is based on the circumstances of victory, and "O. Henry-style ending" is famous. O. Henry story for readers to follow the clues to guess the outcome of their own, the circumstances clearly moving in one direction in the development, but the touch of a switch to the author, often a surprise to the reader to a conclusion. Since the author has done a clever pre-set the stage and laid the foreshadowing, this conclusion seems contrary to common sense is not in line with the inherent logic of things. In order to achieve this unexpected effect,
Authors are usually not important to explain the circumstances, set up the suspense to the readers, to attract readers to read, only open until the last answer. This unexpected outcome to make the idea of the novel and the characters of alert has been raised to bring readers the aesthetic effect of a strong, left a deep impression, very intriguing. Readers often staggering while still convincing, and then have to praise the author at the end of clever ideas and deal with it again and. This conclusion is verified by the former Soviet Unionauthor calls "the art of combat power to put the final," this sentence has become a symbol of the exclusive O Henry short stories.