In this Chapter, Joe tells the story from Clarissa’s point of view and marks a narrative transition as we switch from a first-person narrative to a third-person one. However, with the change of perspective, the audience merely observes the plot from Joe’s restricted view of events, making the narrative within this chapter not entirely omniscient. Interestingly, Joe adopts a God-like position as editor of Clarissa’s story. Given his atheism, Joe’s attitude could be reflected as somewhat ironic. Joe admits he ‘construed’ Clarissa’s narrative but he does not explain how.
Fitzgerald also uses Nick to add his personal opinion which is displayed as Nicks, this however is contradictory to the construct of Nick as he states at the start of the chapter he states that he is ‘inclined to reserve all judgement’ Fitzgerald uses irony here as Nick is very judgemental throughout the whole novel. The start of chapter 1 is told as a brief summary of Nick caraways life until it moves onto introducing and describing Gatsby, we can see that it is a reflectional summary of Nicks early life as it simply says ‘in my younger and more…’ we see that is almost summarising his life very shortly as if it were to be written in a memo or told in a short
Rumours are the main way in which information is passed to the reader in the first part of the chapter. It starts off by saying that “My Finn informed me that” and “the grocery boy reported that.” Jordan also says “rumour has it” when she is talking to Nick about the possibility of Toms girl being on the phone. The fact that there is no solid evidence or speech in the first part of the chapter builds up an air of suspense almost a quiet before the storm and a preface of what was to come. Fitzgerald then focuses on the weather as a distraction for all of the characters to use as and when they want. The topic of the weather may not be seen as important in the overall story, however the characters mention it a lot whenever they are trying to release tension or get out of an awkward situation.
The main defense mechanism used by Nick is denying his actions. Nick’s anxiety of hitting Caitlin needs to be dealt with without Nick using his defense mechanisms. Nick needs to open up and talk. Nick was sent to anger management class. And had met a man named Mario.
Equally crucial to the symbolic meaning of the novel is the namelessness of the protagonists and other characters; the only named character’s name Ely was revealed as not being his real name. The non-mention of the catastrophic event that caused the devastation and the lack of a specific name for the location of the events in the novel is equally symbolic. There is also the religious motif evident in the number of reference made to God in the novel. Also, the peculiarity of the narrative style, structure and language use is relevant to the message inherent in the novel, all of these factors into the interpretation of the story. At a glance, the novel’s title “The Road”, literarily denotes the actual physical road the protagonists travel, as the story unfolds the title evolves into a metaphoric motif for the route, the path or the means through which they must travel to fulfil their mission thus,
The response from Rochester is out of the ordinary - he seems only to find her ‘singular’ and does not reprimand her for speaking impolitely. The general lexis used to first describe Rochester – words such as ‘heavy’ and ‘stern’ - rejects the conventional image of a Romantic hero, thus we are encouraged to read on and learn more about him. Rochester is mysterious, and throughout the
This sense of obscurity created through the introduction is effective towards the reader because it provides suspense because the audience wants to know why Dorian Gray is so significant and important to the book and also why he is so focused on by Basil and Lord Henry. Additionally, Wilde uses obscurity to emphasise Dorian's absence to the world:- "One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world." The use of 'One' in this quotation generalises the opinion that Dorian has been absent from the rest of the world. the quotation as a whole makes him seem like more of a mysterious and unpredictable character because it is as if no one has ever seen anyone/thing like him before and therefore does not know what to expect from him. Following this, Oscar Wilde uses vivid images to describe Dorian Gray's appearance.
It is obvious that he has betrayed his principles but he has not become as engagé in the war as Pyle. During the novel we learn that Fowler’s main principle is his detachment. This is incredibly important for Fowler along with his ability to deal with external things and not his own thoughts and feelings and the fact that he has “no real opinion about anything”. He tries to hide his expressions of emotions and opinions from those around him particularly Phuong and Pyle. He is very quick to correct himself if he believes he is beginning to take a side or become involved.
The two distinct parts of this passage is that Telemachos starts the conversation but only has 8 lines to make his point while Nestor manages 14 lines of response. Showing the younger man aims to make a point, attempting to be dynamic and desperate for action while the older one is happy to ramble without care as he is comfortable in his own home. This mirrors the plight of Odysseus, the struggle to end his torment while those sitting in his palace enjoy themselves without guilt. Revenge is the main stay of conversation starting with an ending remark to the previous passage of Agamennon’s murderer. Telemachos refers to himself as both victim and avenger but relates the tragedy of his
Darcy comment that he was not sufficiently "master" of himself to reveal in conversation what he has put in the letter, He asserts that his "character required it to be written and read" Darcy may not be much of a conversationalist, but he writes a strong and intelligent letter, to which Elizabeth is surprised. Darcy uses the letter to expose his true feelings towards Elizabeth. It is the first real time that we see the honest Darcy, who is not masquerading behind his arrogance. This would suggest that Austen uses the letters as a medium of the truth, exposing the character true feelings and relationships through the text in the letter. Not only