Anxious People Literary Elements

Anxious People Literary Elements

Genre

Novel

Setting and Context

Set in Sweden in the context of crime

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Humorous, intriguing, fascinating, traumatic

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central characters are Jim and Jack.

Major Conflict

The main conflict is that a bank burglar takes the strangers in an apartment hostage for several hours after a failed robbery.

Climax

The climax comes when the cops discover the real identity of the bank robber. According to the cops, the robber is a woman who lost her home, job and husband. Therefore, frustrations drove the woman into robbery. Jack recalls that the same woman tried to commit suicide when she threw herself under the bridge, but she survived.

Foreshadowing

The cashless bank robbery foreshadows the robber’s hopeless life.

Understatement

The ability of women robbers is understated. The discussed bank robber is a 39-year old woman. After she robs the bank, she realizes that it is cashless, and she runs away. She enters an apartment and takes hostage the occupants for hours before the police arrive.

Allusions

The story alludes to life frustrations that push people to crimes.

Imagery

The images of the bank robbery and hostages in the apartment depict a sense of sight which helps readers see how the robbery is executed.

Paradox

The main paradox is that the older cop is the father of the younger cop. Paradoxically, the son doubts his father's ability to execute the investigation concerning the bank robbery.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between crime and daily life challenges.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

The cashless bank is personified as hopeless.

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