Genre
Non-fiction
Setting and Context
The text is written in the context of Taddeo's reports.
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Apprehensive, poignant, dismal
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonists are Lina, Maggie and Sloane.
Major Conflict
The major conflict occurs when Sloane's husband demands her to lay with other men while he watches. The reader is shocked by that kind of unnatural romance.
Climax
The climax is an affair between Maggie and her English teacher, who is already married. This relation will not succeed because the teacher is already a family man.
Foreshadowing
Lack of affection from Lina’s husband foreshadows her future panic attacks and unsuccessful affair.
Understatement
The relationship between Maggie and her teacher is understated. The assumption that the teacher is married does not prevent Maggie from becoming a second wife if she so wishes.
Allusions
The story alludes to marital challenges and struggles.
Imagery
The description of the masturbating man who saw the writer’s mother shows images of protruding manhood, which depict the sense of sight. Similarly, the imagery of Lina’s fantasies is evident, thus depicting the imagery of sight.
Paradox
Maggie’s assumption that her man cannot contract STDs is paradoxical because any exposed individual can easily contract the disease.
Parallelism
The story of Lina’s marital life apparels with Sloan’s marriage because both are dissatisfied.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The phrase 'I like it, so much' by Lina refers to her feeling that she is not old and can impress a man despite having grown children.
Personification
N/A
