O. Henry's ending

I have understood the term ”O’henry’s ending” after read the collection of his short story. It is usually surprising and unpredicted and it can usually pull the whole story to its climax and makes people to have endless thinking. This surprise usually occurs with sudden reversal or by making the hero fate appear unexpected results. But in a sense, it is not over and according with the practice of life. This surprise leads the unique artistic charm and can be identified as ”O’henry’s ending”.

For instance, the story “witches’ loaves” is a typical example for O’henry’s ending. It is a story happened in the United States: Miss Martha opened the bakery and she is very rich. There was a customer who went to her bakery twice a week to buy stale bread. On occasion, Miss Martha found that the customer's hands with a reddish brown stains and concluded that the customer is an poor artist so she put a big piece of butter on the bread the customer. Yet the customer is an architectural pattern designer and used stale bread to wipe the pencil print. As a result, the architectural figure became a waste because of the butter.

Life is just like that sometimes- kindness leads to the hate instead of gratitude. Martha put butter on the bread, is because of her sympathy and love, but misunderstood its usage. What I want to say even though your kindness is sometimes be understood or made something worse, never stop give your help and love to others because giving is always better than receiving.