Based on the corpus of the short stories of S. Zweig an analysis has been carried out on numerous examples with regard to word order in subordinates. After a survey of various examples we concluded that in cases where a conjunctive is dropped, the verb shifts to the beginning of the sentence. The writer, thus, achieves a faster rhythm in the narration and a condensed survey of the psychological atmosphere of the action. Zweig also achieves this by other means such as the use of simple tenses. A second characteristic dealing with word order in Zweig's short stories includes the tendency to break the rules of word order (Ausklammerung), which is a known characteristic of colloquial speech. For example, the verb is placed at the beginning of the sentence or certain parts of the sentence are placed behind the verb, in short, the fixed word order is disregarded. These examples of the use of word order in subordinate sentences, which are offered by the German language, is used expertly by S. Zweig as a stylistic device which characterizes both his sentences and his technique of narration and this forms the basic organization and structure of his short stories.
