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Structure of "Penelope"(Ulysses)
by MCorte - (2012-02-08)
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TITLE: Penelope. It refers to the Ulysess's wife in Homer's Odyssey
STRUCTURE: there is only one sentence, without any kind of punctuation
SETTING: the main character is thinking during the night in his bed but his psychological setting is in another places in the world where someone is still in his everyday life
STORYLINE: it is about everyday life described by thoughts
CHARACTERS: Molly, Leopold's wife
NARRATIVE STRATEGIES: the author uses total stream of consciousness, that is there is only a continuous stream of all thoughts that emerges in Molly's mind. For this author does not use punctuation
NARRATOR: he doesn't comment Molly's thoughts and he is objective.
READER'S POSITION: he is disoriented by the continuous stream of consciousness that doesn't have a logical order.
LANGUAGE: the author describes psychological situation for Molly; her thoughts are generally linked to concreteness