PAG.227 OF NORMAL PEOPLE

• the extract is set in a closed space, but there is mainly a mental space
• attention focused on Marianne’s house because which is never really clean because Lorraine does not work at Marianne’s anymore
• Marianne is nostalgic because she misses both Lorraine and Connell, but in particular she focuses the attention on Lorraine because she is the point of union between Marianne and Connell and she misses also him
• conscious is at the center of investigation since Marianne is looking at the past
• Connell is like a ghost in Marianne’s head 
• Joanna and Evelyn’s references are used to underline that in Marianne’s head there is the tendency to go back to the past
• narrator is speaking from Marianne’s point of view to make the reader identify with her and also to make the reader feel as if he/she was in Marianne’s mind. The narrator wants to recreate in the reader the feelings, considerations and thoughts in Marianne’s mind 
• showing prevails on telling
• she thinks she had missed the train with Connell

PAG.228 OF NORMAL PEOPLE

• Marianne wants to stop violence and went together with other friends to a protest against the war in Gaza
• Marianne is an idealistic and an open-minded person
• she remembered an episode when she felt like a hero, but now she does not feel as powerful as in the past 
• there is a descriptive sequence of the protest, then the narrator focused on the way Connell and Marianne went home
• in the car they were listening to a song that reminds of their past: White Lies