Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on author's tone and purpose. The author shows that if that what you are looking for, you don’t want me. The author's other purpose was to show how the

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on author's tone and purpose. The author shows that if that what you are looking for, you don’t want me. The author's other purpose was to show how the short story has been dominated far too long by the novel. The other author meticulously shows this by adeptly using metaphors. Millhauser describes this predominance by metaphorically writing, “The novel buys up the land, cuts down the trees, puts up the condos.”

One of the tones the author of the article has used is tough tone. This tone is captured when Millhauser describes the novel as “exhaustive by nature, it can hardly contain itself.” Furthermore, Millhauser still captures a tough tone, no doubt, when he writes strongly about the novel “after all, what difference does it make? It’s nothing but talk.” The other tone the author capture in his work is optimism. Millhauser demonstrates his sense of optimism by writing optimistically about the short story. Millhauser describes the short story as “modest in its pretensions, shyly proud of its petite virtues.