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For a good story the title always become the most important element. The basic theme of a short story is generally reveal into its title. In the same way the title of the short story The Fly proves extremely significant. These short story portrays the theme of the cruelty of fate upon the unpredictable destiny of human beings.
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| The Fly |
The Boss central character of the story, who is going through enormous extent of anguish and Mr. Woodifield serves him wine. While Mr. Woodifield having a course of conversation with the Boss casually refers to the visits of his daughters to Belgium. Where they had come across the burial of his only son, killed in a combat mission six years ago. After Woodifield's departure from his office the fly has fallen into the inkpot, then the boss takes out the fly from the pot but repeatedly he drops the drop of ink on the wretched fly, so that poor creature struggles hard to give the test of its stamina. But ultimately The Fly collapsed.
This incident very clearly depicts the helplessness and exhausted condition of the Boss. Whose only son was killed in war and with it the dream and hope of the man and also got shattered. The boss has played with the wretched fly in the same way, as once the Almighty has played again with his life. The title of the short story thus reveals the central theme that is the domination of human beings under the Mighty cruel hands of fate. So, concerning the symbolic message of the short story the title The Fly proves highly significant and appropriate.
The constitution of the fly episode forms really an essential feature in the story of the boss, of his suffering and sorrow for his dead son. It introduced both the lamentable note and the psychic probe which manifest the profoundness of the short story. This episode concern with the inner meaning of the story, as well as human psychology, rigid enough, under the influence of some trance inversion. This association of fly episode, bring the meaning and appropriateness to the title The Fly.