2. Arturo B. Rotor
Arturo Belleza Rotor - A
Filipino doctor, pianist, writer and
civil servant. A man of many talents,
Rotor was the first to describe a
rare form of hyperbilirubinaemia
that is now known as Rotor’s
syndrome. Rotor was also a highly
accomplished pianist, and one of the
most important short story writers
of the Philippines and his collected
works include The Wound and the
Scar, and The Men Who Play God.
3. • Narrator – Was the one who narrates the
flow of the story
• The Old Man – The owner of the flower
shop
•Letty – She was the one who sell flowers
• Purita – She was the younger cousin, who
was waiting for some costumers behind the
big counter in the outer room
• Margarita Martinez – She was the birthday
celebrant
• Mrs. Lacson – One of the costumers who
bought flowers for Miss Martinez
5. It happens morning when someone was planning
to went at the flower shop of an old man to ask
confidential data about the hybridization of roses for
his feature writing story on his magazine.
When she went to the flower shop, he saw
Purita, the younger cousin waiting for costumers. He
saw a lot of different kinds of beautiful flowers that
they had. There were res flowers and yellow ones.
While rooming around, he saw Letty who was in the
corner. He immediately ask Letty if she is not busy
because he wants help for his magazine but Letty have
something to do. He decided just to get a chair and set
beside her so that he could look at her directly. At that
time, he started to write already anything about news,
features, ads, sketches, and notes and he made a lot of
paragraph already.
6. After that, he felt bored that he don’t know what to
do except only in observing costumers and noted down some
characteristics because he think that it could help. He even
answered the telephone several times and most of them
were for Margarita Martinez’ party. When he drop down
the telephone, there were four men came with their
motorcycle. Letty asked about their order and they want
plenty of flowers just for the said party.
Tom, the driver said that he wants to have a passion
flowers. He was very particular about the way they were
arranged, the ferns that were used, even the ribbons and
the tissue paper and you could see how he loved flowers.
The last box that he ordered is for their companion whom
they called Mike. He put an arm around Mike’s shoulders
and whispered something to him.
7. Letty and he couldn’t look at each other for
a long time. It was because they have seen
something that made them feel as if they had
committed something shameful. They didn’t look at
each other pretending to be busy. Mrs. Lacson
appeared with the two other women.
Mrs. Lacson wants a box of gladioli for Miss
Martinez and it was a coincidence when the two
women heard about it because they also want that
for Miss Martinez. That made them ask if Mrs.
Lacson would go to the party but only her husband
will come. They talk with each other until the
women mentioned the name of her friends, of
Margot and Don Pepe and the Judge as well. That
made him write another story on how in a flower
shop a woman can’t be alone with her thoughts.
8. Suddenly, a senator arrived looking for the two
women if they have bought already the flowers yet but
Mrs. Lacson was the first who bought it so, they just go.
He said to his self that he got already the word that
describes exactly for the two women for his writing.
Well, after that he was almost through and he
learned a lot about of flowers that day as well as people.
All about how some flowers are like human beings. But he
couldn’t leave because there was something more he
wanted to tell Letty until there were two men who arrived
at the shop.
The courteous one said very politely if he could
have a box of flowers that is something cheaper. The guy
choose cosmos which is the cheapest that cost only ten
centavos. The guy have a bright idea to buy a box which is
more expensive than the flowers so that Miss Martinez
would think that the flowers are expensive. He turned his
face to his companion but it just look into the other way.
9. Environment itself could affect ones
doing as what he/she could observed on it.
The flower shop represents as the
great tool on a person who is doing
something and it made him easier
because of the happenings around on
him.
10. • Sociological Approach – The flow
of the story was in the flower shop
and the narrator was their for a
feature story on his magazine and
the environment and the people’s
characteristics were shown which
helps him to create many wonderful
ideas for the story he was making.
