Paper analyzes diction, dry style, theme and mood in "The Wall" by Jean-Paul Sartre, using textual references. (page numbers refer to pages in MODERN SHORT STORIES)

As a prisoner of World War II, Jean-Paul Sartre was able to write a realistic fictional story about Spanish anarchists being held as political prisoners. A member of the growing class of philosophers known as existentialists, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote about human existence as a series of blind choices. In "The Wall," three men sharing a cell receive the same sentence; death by shooting. As the story tracks the approximately twenty-four hours after the delivery of the sentence, the narrator, Pablo Ibbieta shares his increasingly disconnected and existentialist feelings. Jean-Paul Sartre uses d…