25th November 2019

Four Month Later July 2014 

Where are they? → Connell’s bedroom

What are they watching?

Who is speaking? → Connell

What does she replay?

Why do you think she is falling asleep? → she is bored/ annoyed

How can we justify it?

Why do you think Sally Rooney focuses her attention saying that they are always on bed?

External narrator => dramatic scene

Dialogue (Showing) → Telling

Why does this chapter started in this way?

What is the narrator telling us? → Nothing seems to have changed from the beginning 

What is the narrator focusing on? Marianne’s actions.

Why is she asking for the Coke? Coke is made of caffeine 

What is the atmosphere? .--> Nothing seems to be meaningful  

Fan = ventaglio

What is the narrator trying to tell us?

What Marianne wants Connell tells her? → to be appreciate 

What language uses Connell when he speaks to her? 

To approve of

To take any position

To want to do sth 

What is the main point that has changed from the traditional to the modern novel? 

Victorian novel: 

• the narrator is omniscient
• technique of telling
• the reader isn’t free to have an idea
• everything is filtered by the narrator

Quali sono i parametri che modificano il modo di narrare? → C’è un modo diverso di percepire in il TEMPO

Eveline non è in grado di avere un punto di vista personale sulla vita

Close space => close mind

Window => protection screen: She is afraid of outside

Eveline non ha la forza per ribellarsi perchè non è autonoma

To take distance

The objective of the present essay is to provide some considerations about the narrative strategies and choices adopted by the writer in the first section of the chapter Four Month Later July 2014 by Sally Rooney.

The first element to consider is the setting: Connell and Marianne, the two protagonists, are in Connell’s bedroom. They are watching a football match on tv. Marianne seems to feel shortly asleep and so Connell asks her the reason. The answer is that she is annoyed because she is not as interested in football as Connell. The narrator is in third person and external. Showing and telling are both used. It is interesting to underline that this chapter starting with the description of Connell’s room creates a link with the beginning of the novel highlighting that nothing has changed. Moreover, the poster that is going to fall implies a desolate vision of the bedroom. Going on, Marianne asks for a Coke. The reason why she asks a coke and not another beverage is because it contains caffeine in order to try to stay awake.