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“Uneasy Home-Coming”, a gripping tale by Will F Jenkins, shows us how suspense can be introduced and maintains in a short story. In this story we see Connie coming home from holiday to an empty house by the bay. When she enters the house she automatically knows something isn’t right and she finds out what has been happening while she was on holiday. The author has used the setting to add to the suspense because he has made it a dark, dark night with lots of shadows. Connie was isolated because their was no houses near her “There were no neighbours near to make other sounds” This adds to the suspense of knowing that no one is near her so anything could happen to her. When she goes upstairs she gets the first signs that there has been an intruder, “Then she saw the cigarette ends on the rug”. In the closing scenes when Connie is being hunted through her dark house “They would know she had darkened the house to hide in it, to use the telephone”. This adds to the suspense of something jumping out from the dark and grabbing her. The character of a lonely women adds to the suspense because she is vulnerable and an easy target.
Approximate Word count = 773
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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