JOE KIDSON
“I must reach the denouement before I stop.”
In ‘Circle’, I explore the use of metafiction, making readers aware that they are reading fiction, and comment on the seeming class struggle between the two protagonists.The climax of the story is when the boy strangles the author in a role-reversal of character and writer.The ending is foreshadowed through the description of the seasons, something Saki uses to create macabre humour in ‘The Reticence of Lady Anne’. Here, “... short, green shoots beginning” in the greenhouse are meant to represent an artificial spring, while the outside reality is full of the “crimson leaves” of autumn hinting at impending death.
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