1. Style and Structure
1.1. a lot of mystery; the reader will not be sure if people really did or felt that way because there is a distance between the narrator and the events
1.2. First-person narrator
1.2.1. relates a story that her mother told her
1.3. descriptive events
1.3.1. long sentences to create realism and describe vivid moments
2. Characterisation
2.1. Flat charachter
2.1.1. Robert
2.1.1.1. mystery character; not getting much information about him. not knowing how does he feel when he married to Ellie and then to Audrey
2.2. Rond character
2.2.1. The narrator
2.2.1.1. The main unnamed character as she speaks about her dream of her mother
2.2.2. Flora
2.2.2.1. old fashion
2.2.2.1.1. experienced lot of changes; - betrayal of her sister with her fience - she decides to move, leave everything behind and live a steady happy life
2.2.3. Ellie
2.2.3.1. wild girl
2.2.3.1.1. had experienced lot of changes in her life;lost of her babies , become sick,..
3. Theme
3.1. Friendship
3.1.1. Flora and the narrater's mother
3.2. Betrayal
3.2.1. Ellie's betrayal of her sister
3.3. Evil
3.3.1. Nurse Audrey mocks Flora because she did not come to the party"she is stuck in the olden times"
3.3.2. shows cold-hearted and sharp personality
3.4. generational differences
3.4.1. technology, transportation, communication
3.4.2. Audrey coplaints about the furnishings off the house"how people could live in such a way" ...Audrey brings a telephone into the houseand install an electric
4. Symbols & motifs
4.1. the title could be a symbole of the relationship
4.2. love; triangle relationship
4.3. wedding dress=women's lives
4.4. cleaning is a symbol of religion"clean guilt"
5. Plot
5.1. Sequence
5.1.1. The narrator uses flashbacks of her mother memoirs
5.2. Conflict
5.2.1. Individual vs technology
5.2.2. Individual vs Individual as Audrey constantly mocks Flora
5.3. Climax
5.3.1. The turning point is when the nurse takes over everything
5.4. Resolution
5.4.1. Flora's decesion to move and leave everything
6. setting
6.1. Time
6.1.1. No year specified
6.2. Place
6.2.1. In a place out the city?"farmhouse" in old schoolhouse
7. Figurative Language
7.1. Imagery
7.1.1. When describing charachters to engage audience "dark-eyed woman-dark- haired, tall
7.2. Simile
7.2.1. Flora takes care of her sisteer ,read to her everynight to sleep"everybody said that Flora had behaved like a saint" idealise her from the narator mother
7.2.2. When showing Flora is elegant "Flora could look like a queen"
7.3. Use of dialouge
7.3.1. "Ellie dear, Imust go"said Flora
7.4. Repetition
7.4.1. of "did it to"to give the whole responsibility on the shoulders of Robert.