Theft by Katherine Anne Porter The setting of the story "Theft" made by Miss Porter is the city New York. The character of the story is a writer and reviewer; such as Miss Porter and the time that has been defined in the tale is the beginning of the Great Depression of the l930s. The story that symbolizes all the property was the stolen reward, which was appropriately made of gold cloth. Thus, the theft of the prize signifies the conflict between the "haves" and the "have-nots."

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Miss Porter being the author of the story neither given a simple conflict in the tale nor a reader can easily comes up to a simplistic definition of the problem. Thus, here the character and heroine...

In fact, she was too close to starving and was even poorer than the janitress.
However, just like the purse, she signified those who possessed things other people do not have but in fact they want. Therefore, the talented reversal at the end of the story made the janitress succeeded and also made the heroine feel that she has stolen if not from the janitress herself, then from the janitress' niece making the readers' emotions running through the whole tale, that are amalgamation of sympathies and much more.

Furthermore, it can be said about the story "Theft," that the protagonist's indifference invited the theft of…