Analysis of the first chapter of “On Chesil Beach”

"On Chesil Beach" is a contemporary novel, the writer is Ian McEwan and it is dedicated to Annalena.
The preposition “on” opens a scenary both geographic and suspense of what will happen on chesil beach.
The first chapter is divided into 3 sequences, in which in one side the narrator speaks about the events and in another side the reader can read about thoughts and sentiments.
In the first part a third person omniscient narrator tells the story and it is demonstrated by a personal consideration: “but it is never easy”. The narrator is omniscient, because he knows all about the protagonists.
It is acclimatized in chesil beach and it is on the Dorset Coast, in South East of Great Britain.
There are two characters: Edward and Florence. They're 22 years old , they're just married in St. Mary's Church in Oxford ( it is a church attended by university's students ) and now they are on the first floor of a Georgian inn.
She is a musician and he is an historian, but he doesn't find a job, so her father find a work for him.
The main important difference about Edward and Florence is that they come from different social classes; instead Edward is never been in an hotel, while Florence went often with her father. Then her father can find a job for him, so he is a very important person in society, if he can find works for other people without problems. In addition her mother has a car and in that period it was already difficult having a car for a family and Florence's family has two cars!!Besides her father had given their some money. So they are richer than Edward's family.
She is a musician, so you must be rich to pay the instruments and the lessons.
They didn't considered more as children, after marriage; instead the society of that period didn't help the young people, who are not married. It is the first wedding night and they are rich of expectation: they are going to reveal themselves fully to one another. But here are two problems: Edward is afraid, because he apprehends to “arrive too soon”. Florence has dread and disgust of sex. She has read a book about this argument and she didn't want absolutely to be “entered” or “penetrated”. She adores him, but she wants only to cudd him and she hates kisses with tongue. But she loves children and she wants one.
In that period it was a scandal to speak about sex also in family and only in last period of age '60 someone begins to speak about sex. Instead she doesn't speak with nobody about this argument. Maybe if she spoke with someone, she could be not afraid.
The most relative matter between Edward and Florence is that they are unable to talk their problems about sex. When they are together, they speak mainly about their childhoods. They are conscious about their problems and they hide them and they postpone them.
They are inexperience of the world and they try to affront this new world for them.