A PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITISCISM OF THE

 SHORT STORY "BAD TEMPER"

    THE CRITIQUE OF THE STORY "BAD TEMPER"

        (by: Cherry Mae )

       The Author of the bad temper succeed  to bring out the message and how important controlling the temper of a person in the story. Why people need to control their temper and just be calm.

          The Psychological criticism about the mind and behavior of one person. The story , Bad Temper is about a boy who had a bad temper and his father gave him a bag of nail every time he lost his temper.

             The story of  the Bad Temper is all about a boy and his father. The boy is always have a bad temper,his father giving him a bag of nails and say's that every time that he lost his temper , he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. From that day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence and after a weeks, he learned to control his anger and the number of the nails hammered daily gradually  dwindled down, He discover that it more easy to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Then from that day he didn't lose his temper at all. He told to his father about it and his father suggested to the boy to pull out one nail for each day that he able to hold his temper and  the boy did. The day passed and all the nail were gone. His father led him to the fence and said, that the boy done well, then he said to the boy to look at the holes in the fence, and he also say that the fence  will never be the same, like if you say things in anger, they leave a sear just like you put a knife in a man and draw it out, even if you say sorry, the wound will be still there.

              The Bad Temper explain how important to control our bad temper, because it can cause you to become a bad person, you might hurt others because of your anger and your also might killed others because of it. That's why we need to control our temper to elude hurting other people.