An Unfinished Story
Author: O. Henry
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Languages: English, RU, Italian
Genre: Romance, Satire, Short story
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Dulcie, a New York shop-girl surviving on six dollars a week, receives her first invitation to a fancy dinner from a well-dressed man about town.
Characters
- Dulcie — department-store clerk: Young New York shop-girl earning six dollars a week who lives alone in a furnished room on the West Side.
- Piggy — predatory dandy: A well-dressed man who haunts department stores inviting underpaid shop-girls to expensive dinners.
- Sadie — Dulcie's coworker: Dulcie's cheerful workmate at the department store who admires Piggy's reputation as a generous spender.
- General Kitchener — portrait on the dresser: A framed photograph on Dulcie's dresser whose stern, sorrowful gaze serves as her silent moral guide.