Vanity Fair, W.M. THACKERAY

 CHAPTER II

In this extract the narrator represents thought their action and thought their dialogue two characters: Rebecca Sedley and Amelia Sharp. They are two students , which have finished  the last year of school and now they are on the carriage to back home . The episode is opened by  Rebecca’s “ heroical act”, she had send her dictionary from the carriage. The impulsive and revengeful Rebecca’s personality born from the hate for the school ; the ill-treatment and the  punishment that  she was forced to endure as a child by teachers. But now she is free nobody can judge or punish her. So during the extract she critics her teachers and the way to teach. Rebecca is opposed to Amelia. She has an humble and gentle temper that corresponds to the Victorian model ; her personality is totally conformist .                       The narrator speaks in third person and he is omniscient and intrusive; he directs the reader’s reading.    

CHAPTER XXX

In this extract the narrator describes the brave love of Captain Crawley, who must go to fight and so sadly have to leave home his love. He is worry that if he dies his wife has enough money to survive. So before to leave he organized a plan of economy  for his wife and then  he  greeted with great emotion his wife and left .                                                                                                               The materialist and opportunist personality of Rebecca is clear in this extract. She doesn’t care about the condition of her husband, the only thing that is important for her is the wealth. After the departure of her husband begins to count for so much money and jewels has. The narrator uses the irony to critic Rebecca and the material world in which she lives.