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11 kwi 2016 · Only 3 years after the publication of "Rain," Maugham was to get into trouble with his unfortunate choice of names for his protagonists in The Painted Veil. But there is more to the story "Rain." Maugham wrote it up from his notes, then one night he chanced to meet John Colton, a young American playwright, at the Hollywood Hotel, who was ...
"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as "Miss Thompson" in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set, [1] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf. [2]
30 mar 2019 · “Rain” (1921) by W. Somerset Maugham is a fish-out-of-water story, in which characters wholly unsuited to their environment become marooned somewhere due to external circumstances. As a result, they undergo many trials and change as a result… or they don’t, if it’s a tragedy.
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Analysis. In the opening paragraphs of “Rain,” W. Somerset Maugham establishes the characters that comprise the two couples around which the narrative revolves. Alec Macphail, the point-of-view character, is headed to Apia, capital of American Samoa, to work for twelve months as a doctor.
This study dealt with the analysis of a short story, Rain by William Somerset Maugham in terms of post-colonial terms or elements. Before the analysis, the writer of the book was introduced and then the plot was explained so as to make readers familiar with the short story.
