Genre
A short story
Setting and Context
England, time is unknown
Narrator and Point of View
Third person narration
Tone and Mood
This story is very abstract, sometimes hardly understandable because it has a lot of situations seemed simple and casual but really they have a deeper sense. And as the main topic in the story is love there are many sayings about that feeling, it showed differently in different age and is described in original author’s way.
Protagonist and Antagonist
Frances and mole
Major Conflict
The major conflict goes on in the soul of Frances. She wanted to kill her feelings to the previous man and start a new life.
Climax
The first meeting Frances with Tom. This moment started to break her prejudice in relation to him and she began to forget her old love
Foreshadowing
A whole novel is built on foreshadowing about love and choice. The author shows a lot of examples from lives of the characters how love affects people’s lives and how we can make it better by our own choice.
Understatement
Frances understates Anne's feelings about a boy, because thinks that she is too young to understand what love is.
Allusions
Joie de vivre
Imagery
Widely used in nature, characters, and feeling descriptions
Paradox
Paradoxical is the fact that Anne seems older than Frances while she is way younger.
Parallelism
n/a
Metonymy and Synecdoche
n/a
Personification
The mole is linked by personification to love, to the feelings which the two sisters experience.
