In the short story, “Li Chang’s Million”, by Henry Felsen, the theme would be that not everything in life turns out to be what you expect. Sometimes in life when you are planning on doing one thing, life turn around and something you didn’t expect to happen will happen. In the story the main character went to a store in China and began criticizing everything in the store to insult the owner, that’s when he saw Li Chang. This is shown by, “I looked up with a smirk still on my lips, hoping to discomfit the man. But he had moved, and when I looked up, I gazed into a pair of hurt, sad eyes...It was his work I had criticized.” Originally by finding fault in everything in the store he wanted to make the man uncomfortable and insult him a little.
