Genre
Fiction
Setting and Context
The book is written in the context of private investigation.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Suspicious, disheartening
Protagonist and Antagonist
Mickey is the protagonist of the story.
Major Conflict
The major conflict is when unknown persons kidnap Mickey, and she goes missing. She is later found dead, and Jill starts the investigation to uncover the killers.
Climax
The climax comes when Jill discovers that the real killers of Mickey are Diana and her husband, Nick.
Foreshadowing
Mickey’s death foreshadows the discovery of the rot in society resulting from sexual greediness.
Understatement
Nick and Dianna's marriage is understated. The sad reality is that Nick and Diana are sexual vampires because they kill Mickey in the process of having sexual intercourse.
Allusions
The story alludes to rot in a society driven by greediness.
Imagery
Sexual imagery is the most prevalent in the story because the author describes graphic scenes of sexual encounters. For instance, Mickey is killed by Nick and Diana during sexual intercourse when the game goes wrong.
Paradox
The main paradox in the story is the unpredictable sexual encounters. For instance, Jill gets into a sexual relationship with Diana despite knowing that she is married. When Diana's husband discovers the affair between his wife and Jill, he is not upset!
Parallelism
There is parallelism between Jill’s sexual encounters with Mickey’s sexual appetite.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Sex is objectified and incarnated as a powerful influencer.
