The author's communicative aim is to make us reconsider our attitude to our close surrounding, he means our friends.
The theme of this story is friendship.
The authors raises different acute problems between friends: a problem of wrong in others, a problem of misunderstanding, a poblem of belive and inbelieve and so on.
The title of this story is symbolic.
It shows us excerpt from proverb: a friend in need is a friend indeed.
At the beginning of this story the author describes his thoughts about the fact that the 1st impression of a man is always deceptive.
In this he found in his personal life experiences.
It's an exposition.
The action takes place in Kobe.
In the plot of this story the author talks us how he remembers one of the stories connected with his friend, who is named Edward Hyde Burton.
Burton is a pleasant man with good manners as he always considers.
The authors shows him indirectly.The author thinks that he is a gentle, kind and not conflict person.
Also he has a very friendly family who looks like as a united and loving one.
Burton tells Maugham story of his namesake - Lenny Burton who is a remarkable player of 35 years old. and doesn't have money to pay his hotel bill and in need of money and work.
During their conversation his friend knows that this player in yputh is not a bad swimmer, but over the years has lost skills.
At this moment Burton has the idea to invite him to a dispute that his namesake lose.
It's the climacs of this story.
The out come of this story is the last Burton's actions in which he shows the essence of a cynical and cowardly man.
September 2015
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