Short -> to create the same effect of a narrative

To restrict time and space of narration

Title

Characters 

Setting

The story takes place in...

Eveline takes place in Dublin

How is the setting created? Weather...

How do they add or contribute to make meaning?

Ex. In Eveline the setting is a sort of re-presentation of the character’s inner space

Dust covers the objects

Where and when the short story is set

Moment of confusion to find meaning

Eveline’s present is only inhabited by the past

The future makes her afraid

Future expectations: she imagines a future life with Frank

There are some references to other languages -> migrants

Is there any element to violence? Why does violence take place? How does law help people who are violented?

The atmosphere creates effect on the connotative level

Dust makes you soffocate

Eveline is a teenager like Hamlet

Shakespeare Speaks about the inability to take action 

Eveline  incapacity to make decisions about her life

Idea of consciousness 

stream of consciousness -> reality

 Interior monologue -> tecnique 

The language is not philosophical

 the use of the verb tense is important

Use of the modal verbs

Short stories focus on very few characters 

What is the point made in the text?

Is she a flat or around the character?

Relationship between the reader in the text.

Does she seem to change In a certain part of the text?

What is the most important event in the text?

 Is the plot important? no 

It is a modernist text

The third person narrator adopts Eveline’s point of view 

Mixture of telling and showing

The conflict is with her consciousness

How does the surrounding environment influence her mind?

- pag 239 Normal People

Darwin dice che chi non si adatta rompe il processo evolutivo

Empty ~no relationships 

Bottle of beer /personal reference / cultural reference / painkiller like a drug

The way we perceive reality makes our reality

We are what we pretend to be ( Il modo in cui ci presentiamo agli altri)

Gross language 

He is drunk

He wants to decide where she should / shouldn’t go.

Absolute negations

Escape-> Eveline

You escape from danger/ from a cage

Bully people are afraid

Prejudice about people who are going to the psychiatrist

Allen is very keen on her reputation 

consciousness has been replaced by reputation ( the image of what you have)

What are we here for? 

We must invent a sense 

We are here for no purpose unless we can invent one

To be unable to accept what you are

Andy Warhol

 the different images of us we give

We learn with our hands first

Riding-> vulgar reference to making sex

She goes to her own developement

To reaffirm his identity