Chesil Beach is a novel written by Ian McEwan in 2007.

The story-line deals with wo youg characters: Edward and Florence on their wedding night, their first night during their honeymoon.

Thenovel shows the anxieties and problems of a young couple but also their expectations, their emotions and private feelings.

The first chapter introduces the story: it presents setting, characters, their behaviour, their anxieties about that first night.

The narrator is a third person omniscient narrator that is one who knows everything about the story and the characters: their past, what  they think, their fears. That is why he uses "they" to speak about the couple (he's an external voice) and he adds personal considerations like "but it is never easy" or "this was not a good moment in the history of English cuisine" and , ast but not least when he talks about Edward as if he were  inside his mind.

The setting is Chesil Beach, on the Dorset coast in the south-east of England; It's a July's night of 1662 and the two characters are having dinner on the terrace of their honeymoon suite on the first floor of a Georgian Inn.

Using his narrative tecniques the narrator underlines the social differences between Edward and Florence: he says Edward has never stayed in a hotel before while Florence is experienced in it; he adds they arrived at the inn by Florence's mother's car, and he also says that Florence's parents "had not condescended to his.

The narrator also uses his narrative technique to convey the idea they are rich in expectations; they are young and of course they want to be considered as adults because in their society to be young means to be an encumbrance and to be married means to be considered in society. It means to be "free" that is  the freedom to live like adults.

The narrator also wants to underline they are inexperienced, they are naïve: the narrator says they are both worried about their first wedding night, they are "adults" now but they don't know what do they do.

Also the weather's description conveysthe the two characters' feelings and emotions. Tthe weather is used in a metaphorical way, it is a projection of the characters' feelings: the weather was "not raining but nor was it quite warm enough".

They are both worried about sexual problems: Florence's problems are connected to disgust of sexual toughts while Edward's ones are connected to his prestation.

I think the two characters are not considered in their society up to now (their wedding day), they are only an encumbrance and when their wedding day arrived  they are so excited but, after that, nothing will change because they are alone and inexperienced about life, they don't know what do they have to do and how to do it and as a result  this creates them plenty of anxieties.