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    The document provides an analysis of the short story "Art for Heart's Sake" by Reuben Lucius Goldberg. It summarizes that Goldberg was an American cartoonist and inventor born in 1883 who is famous for creating cartoons depicting complex devices performing simple tasks indirectly. The analysis then summarizes three key points about the short story: 1) It focuses on problems of art and its meaning/value in society. 2) The author believes anything can be bought with money and art will lose value if everyone considers their work great. 3) The style is expressive and ironic, using many descriptive words and short sentences like exclamations and questions.

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    The Analysis of the Text

    «ART FOR HEARTS SAKE»


    By R. Goldberg

    The Art for Heart’s sake was written by Reuben Lucius Goldberg
    (1883-1970). He was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author,
    engineer, and inventor, was born in San Francisco. He is famous
    for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex
    devices that perform simple tasks in indirect way. His books
    gained popularity among the readers and among his best works
    are Is There a Doctor in the House? (1929), Rube Goldberg’s
    Guide to Europe (1954) and I made My Bed (1960).
    The title of the book reveals the problem of art and its meaning
    and value in our society.
    The author focused his attention on the problems of art and its
    value, money and their influence on people and the world in
    total. The idea of this text is everything can be bought for money.
    Value of art will vanish if everyone foists his god-awful smudge as
    an eternal work of art.
    The style of the author is very expressive and ironic. The typical
    feature of the author`s style is his using a great number of the
    high –flown words to describe the personalities of the characters
    and their behavior. The dialogues are very intensive and dynamic.
    The dynamism of the narration is created by a great number of
    short sentences the majority of which are exclamatory,
    imperative and interrogative. Many author’s remarks reveal the
    character’s traits – good or evil. The interior monologue renders
    the thoughts and feeling of the character. A lot of lexical and
    stylistic devices were used in this text. The author managed to
    depict all his characters with genuine skills. Koppel, doctor
    Caswell, Swain and Ellsworth were described not direct but
    through their behavior, speech and dialogues.
    The first character who was introduced to the reader was the
    male nurse Koppel. The author describes the lady as anxious and
    uneasy. The author described how hard it was. He used gradation
    to reveal the male nurse’s despair (He won’t take his pineapple
    juice. He doesn’t want me to read to him. He hates the radio. He
    doesn’t like anything!). Koppel couldn’t do a thing with the old
    man.
    Doctor Caswell was introduced to the reader as calm and gentle.
    He is a professional and thinks a lot about his patients (He had
    done some constructive thinking since his last visit. Making
    proposition to the old man he took his stethoscope ready in case
    the abruptness of the suggestion proved too much for the
    patient’s heart. In spite of rude and vigorous Ellsworth’s answers
    like Rot and Bosh Caswell managed to persuade him to take up
    art with his professional calm). He understood Ellsworth was no
    ordinary case. Further unintentionally the old man’s diagnosis
    was described. The author used zeugma for the irony (All his
    purchases of recent years had to be liquidated at a great sacrifice
    both to his health and his pocketbook).
    Frank Swain was introduced to the reader as 18 years old and a
    promising student. He has some simile with the doctor. Swain was
    also patient. The author used such simile (there was a drawing on
    the table which had a slight resemblance to the vase) to underline
    the Swain’s reaction (Not bad, sir. It’s a bit lopsided). Swain is
    professional too. As his visits grew more frequent he brought a
    box of water-colors and some tubes of oils. He was no indifferent
    to the Ellsworth and worried about the picture Trees Dressed in
    White. He was forced to sneak into the Gallery and see the
    picture his own eyes.
    Ellsworth behaved like a child. The author used many slang words
    (rot, bosh, by gum, poppycock) to display that the old man’s
    attitude to the Koppel, Swain and Doctor, to emphasizes.
    I think that the author`s attitude to the main characters is rather
    ironic, but objective.

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