I am going to discuss an extract (letter XXI) from "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson who borrowed the name of this novel from a pastoral romance called "Arcadia". "Pamela" is an epistolary novel made of a collection of letters written on various occasions, thus the narrator is in first person. Pamela is a fifteen year old girl, nice and cleaver, who works as a maid in a genteel family living some miles away from her house. When the mother of her present master dies, she starts to work for him; however the son soon tries to seduce Pamela, but she denies herself. The end of the story however sees Pamela and him falling in love. It is a letter written by Pamela, a young girl who is a maid-servant at the house of a nobleman, to her parents. The letter is made up by different sequences. Right from the start the reader can immediately understand the situation: Pamela is very afraid because of her master's behaviour. In the extract there is an important character: Mrs Jervis who is another servant. The two ladies are friends and there is a close relationship between them. The reader can also understand the deep interest of the master towards Pamela who feels afraid to loose her virtue. The novel is an epistolary so that the narrator coincides with the protagonist, Pamela (there is a first person narrator). Pamela writes the letters telling the situation from her point of view speaking about her actions, feelings and emotions. The reader is free to believe in her or not. Pamela's characterization is built through the language she uses and her actions. The reader can imagine the character especially through the language she uses which refers of emotions and feelings. In brief the extract gives the reader a clear picture of how social classes are linked and felt and the relationship between man and woman, too since man is a hunter by tradition and woman loves being hunted though she would never admit it. In conclusion, sticking to this interpretation, Pamela is happy of her master's attentions and she is the prototype of any woman.