A long short story “The apple tree” was written by John Galsworthy, an English novelist and playwright, one of the most popular writers of the early 20th century. It tells the story of Asherst, a middle-aged man who once goes to a village with his wife. While being there he remembers what’s happened 26 years ago just at that place. He is a young man and just graduates from the university, he meets a young girl, Megan, falls in love and promises to marry her. The next day he goes to Torquay for money but there Asherst meets his old friend, Phil Halliday, who invites him to spend a day with him and his sisters. Then the author passes on to say that Asherst falls in love with Phil’s sister Stella. The story ends with Asherst’s desire to look at the farm where Megan lived. There he meets an old man, who tells him that Megan has commited a suicide because of unhappy love. Galsworthy uses third-person narration. There are a lot of descriptive element of the characters and nature. The main characters of the extract are Frank Asherst, his friend Robert Garton and Megan David. Asherst is a romantic and idealistic young man. We understand that from author’s words (He had plucked a blue flower and was twiddling it against the sky. He saw beauty without wondering how it could advantage him). He admires nature and he’s also well educated (he thought of Theocritus and the river Cherwell). To express Asherst’s thoughts the author uses enumeration (he thought of Theocritus and the river Cherwell, of the moon, and the maiden with dewy eyes) and antithesis (he thought of so many things that he seemed to think of nothing). Garton is the opposite of his friend. While Asherst is rather beautiful, Garton was like some primeval beast (simile) and his hair is a kind of dark unfathomed mop (metaphor). He’s not romantic like Asherst (pity is a disease –