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“The Wind” is a story written by a British author Arnold Bennett on the junction of XIX and XX centuries. Bennett was born in Staffordshire as a son of solicitor. After graduation from London Universityhe was employed by his father. In his spare time he was able to do a little journalism, but his breakthrough as a writer was to come after he had to London as a solicitor's clerk.

He won a literary competition in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full time. Step by step, he became famous and from 1900 he devoted himself to writing, giving birth to such works as “The Grand Babylon Hotel”, “Anna of the Five Towns”, “The Old Wives' Tale” and many others. “The Wind” is only one of them, a short story, but it marvelously shows Bennett’s live-understanding and his original writing style.

“The Wind” demonstrates us an entangled ball of threads, some of which lead to the keypoints of people’s souls, others – to the nature, a lot of them – to the society and its principles, and, of course, some go to the image of fortune and its deeds.

The plot of the story is rather simple – a couple living near the seashore has a child, beloved by its mother, Edna, a young emotional woman supposedly in her twenties, and neglected in some way by the father, Frederick. An interesting event happens – she has to go away and leave the infant to her husband, who lacks, from my point of view, responsibility and care very much. The man makes a mistake letting the pram with a sleeping child in the old mill, where the storm, raging outside, disappears. While he is away, the baby slips away from its place. When Frederick comes back met on the way his wife, he finds the pram being empty. That moment something changes in the minds of the parents under the pressure of fear, and after noticing the baby near the firmament and taking it back in parental arms, that new understanding roots, and the family seems to abandon problems we see in the beginning.