欧亨利小说 《The Furnished Room》读后感：
　　This is the first time i read the English novel . As far as i am concerned, it is obviously a hard task for beginners such as me. After enduring the pains of reading difficult materials , I finish the whole book and I get great joys from the bottom of my heart.
　　Now lets talk about the main idea of the novel. A young man came to rent a room in a house. The house keeper told him how good the furnished room was and who had lived here before. The young asked whether his lover Eloise Vashner had rent the room before and the house keeper denied. Then the young man went into the room disappointedly. The room had many little signs left by the furnished room’s procession of guests. The man laid on the bed and suddenly he felt something that suggested his lover had been here before. He searched the room in detail but he couldn’t find anything that his lover left in the room . He hurriedly went downstairs and asked the house keeper again about the previous guests but he got the same answer. He stepped back the room and then sealed the whole room with the strips. Finally he turned on the gas and laid himself gratefully on the bed . He died. After that through the talk between the housekeeper and another person , we know that Eloise Vashner did die in that room. What a tragedy .
　　The grateful sentences impress me deeply. For example, restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes. They flit from furnished room to furnished room, transients forever--transients in abode, transients in heart and mind. They sing "Home, Sweet Home" in ragtime; they carry their ~lares et penates~ in a bandbox; their vine is entwined about a picture hat; a rubber plant is their fig tree.
　　The author O Henry is famous for his special writing style among the world. This short story follows O Henry’s style. Before finished the whole book, I was shocked by the young man’s suicide. It is irrational because in my opinion, the man killed himself without reasonable reasons because he hadn’t made clear whether his lover lived here before . He could spend another five months finding his lover since he had already been looking for her for five months. But when i read the end of the passage, I understood the the author tell the story in such a way that the story is more moving and lead us to think more about the tragic end of the young man and his lover.
　　After finishing the book, I want to show my great admiration to the writer and his novel.

the furnished room讲的是一个男子苦苦寻找自己所爱的人，五个月之后终于丧失希望，在一家旅馆放开煤气自杀，而一个星期以前，正是在那间房子里，他的爱人用同样的方式自杀了。
可以说，这是一篇以嗅觉为核心构筑的小说，核心就在那片突然出现、百寻不见、又突然消失了的木樨香味。之所以选择气味作为线索，或许就因为气味的这种特性：即便你如此真切地嗅到了它，但只要不是目之所见、手之所触，它依然是一片飘渺的虚空，并没有一个实体，因此也无法被证实曾经存在过。就好像一个人投入这座大城市（指纽约），一颗沙粒投入这片无底的流沙，这阵香味投入带家具出现的房间中，也找寻不见、终于消失了。
作家试图用这个邋里邋遢、乱七八糟、污秽难辨的房间来映射那个大城市，所有的人似乎都已沦于堕落，污秽不堪而又冷酷无情。他对这间房间、房间里面的每一件物事、以及房间外面的环境，都作了摄像镜头式的详尽描绘，但真正使我们也使人物，那个找寻者进入他所预想的氛围，却是房间里陈腐霉臭的混杂气味。是的，其实气味也可以具有如此鲜明的形象，有质感的气味所描绘的形象，有时候比任何视觉、听觉或者触觉更加真切。

thefurnishedroom矛盾发展情况如下：
thefurnishedroom是欧亨利的小说《带家具出租的房间》，是20世纪初美国短篇小说巨匠欧·亨利的代表作品，结构巧妙，内容精致，结局富有戏剧性又充满悲剧性。
在美国纽约的下西区遍布着旅馆客房，以及成千上万的无家可归的流动人口。一位年轻小伙儿历时五个月，辗转于下西区的各个旅馆，只是为了寻找心上人的踪迹。当他来到这家破旧的带家具出租的房间时，感受到了熟悉的木樨香味道。
他忍不住向房东太太询问前几任房客的讯息，然而没有得到他想要的答案——瓦西纳小姐并没有在这里居住过。疲倦、失望、甚至绝望的小伙儿选择了自杀。或许自杀对他而言该是最好的结局，因为他心爱的瓦西纳小姐在一周之前，在同一张床上，已经用同样的方式结束了自己的生命，这意味着即便他活着，也将永难寻到心上人。

This is perhaps the bleakest of O. Henry's best-known stories. Although the basic ironic plot can be summarized in a sentence—a young man commits suicide in the same room where a young woman for whom he has vainly searched killed herself—it is the musty atmosphere of the room and the suggestion that every place bears the traces of the lives that have inhabited it that makes the story so compelling. It is a story of transience, of lives that move through a bleak, indifferent world, leaving only bits of themselves, which the young man uncovers as he searches through drawers and pokes into every corner and crevice of the room looking for something that remains of the woman he seeks. However, all that is left is an illusory sweet familiar smell, which melodramatically becomes the sweet smell of the gas he turns on in despair, as she did only one week previously. Although the fact that the young man ends up in the very same room in which his lost sweetheart took her life is one of the most extreme coincidences in all of O. Henry's fiction, the power of the atmosphere of the story is so strong that readers are willing to accept it.
The story ends with two old Dickensian landladies prattling over their beer about the death of a young woman in the room the previous week, which the landlady has kept secret because she did not want to lose the young man's rent. As the young man lies dead upstairs, the ending of the story, with its focus on the mendacity of the old women, reinforces the squalor of the room, further suggesting the unfeeling city that has no room for the romanticism of the two lovers.