Margaret Drabble “The Garrich Year” Analysis

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Margaret Drabble “The Garrich Year” The text under analysis is an extract from “The Garrich Year” by Margaret Drabble. The genre of the story is social as there described professional spheres of life, particularly the art of acting, with the help of the following vocabulary: part, personality, theory of acting, co-actor, performance, pantomime, stage, rep., upstaging, play. The social genre is intermingled here with a psychological one as we can see people’s attitude and emotions towards each other. It can be revealed through such lexical units as “belligerently”, “annoyed to reply”,” bristly challenge”, “desire”, “to believe to be true”. The text is given in the form of dialogue. The basic theme of the story is acting as an art. The tone of writing is objective as the story is given in the third person singular. Exposition is omitted in the story. In the beginning of the text we learn about two main characters, their professional field, the subject of the discussion. Then comes the development proper where characters David and Michael start discussing the problem of whether one should, while acting, be more aware of the audience or the person or persons with whom one is playing the scene. The younger actor David was taking the line that the actor should convey to the audience his own vision of his part, not what he thinks they expect from him and he should concentrate wholly on his co-actor to achieve that. David was opposed by older actor Michael who believed that the actor should adjust his performance to what the public can take as the whole art of acting consists in communication. They keep discussing the topic giving a number of weighty arguments. In order to show how characters are desperately trying convincing each other the author uses a lot of repetitions in their dialogue such as “bloody rep. in this bloody country”, “bloody morony nonsense…a bloody

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