Chapter II

Storyline
Miss Rebecca Sharp and Miss Amelia Sedley have just left Chiswick Mall, a girls' school, to enter the adult world. When they were leaving from the school they received a dictionary from Miss Jemima, the school's teacher, but Rebecca threw her Dictionary out of the carriage's window. Rebecca is satisfied by her act of insubordination and she feels a sense of freedom now that she has left the hated school and she must not pay the consequences for her act. Instead Amelia does not approve Rebecca's gesture.

Characters
The two main characters are Miss Rebecca Sharp and Miss Amelia Sedley. The two girls have opposite attitude: Rebecca is passionate and impulsive, while Amelia is passive, submissive, according to expectations.
Miss Pinkerton is the owner of Chiswick Mall and Miss Jemima is Miss Pinkerton's sister and works in the school.

Setting
The story is set on the carriage outside the school, which is taking away the girls from Chiswick.

Narrator
The narrator is a third person intrusive omniscient narrator. He is intrusive because he steps into the text and creates a dialogue with the reader and he is omniscient because he knows the story and acts as a filter for the reader.

Message
In the extract taken from chapter II Thackeray represents a realistic situation from the English education system, but at the same time he criticizes Rebecca's act of defiance and her opportunism.

Chapter XXX

Storyline
In the extract from Chapter XXX Rebecca is married with Captain Rawdon Crawley. He is getting ready to leave for the battlefield making certain of the various items of his portable property which might be sold for Rebecca's advantage in case any accident should befall him.
Captain Crowley is clearly much worried for his wife than for himself, while Rebecca hasn't such feelings for his husband's departure. After he has gone away, she spends all the morning checking all the things are left.

Characters
The main characters are Rebecca, the novel's "heroine", and her husband Captain Rawdon Crawley.

Setting
The story is set in the Crawleys' house.

Narrator
The narrator is a third person intrusive omniscient narrator.

Message
The text is a critic toward Rebecca, cool and collected, and her material and selfish attitude.