CMLT 275 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
11 Oct 2018
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The story features mostly george"s views of his wife evadne. Pay attention to george"s language and his focus. One of the most striking things upon reading this piece was the strong, hateful diction that the narrator uses to describe george"s feelings towards evadne. His hatred toward his wife is most clearly exemplified when he runs out of the house after evadne, convinced she is meeting a lover as he screams out to god saying let me strangle her. Or bury a knife deep in her breast (page 4). And while his hatred is obvious through george"s own dialogue, the interesting piece is the manner in which the narrator describes george"s feelings. When describing evadne, the narrator often focuses on physical features such as her plaited black hair or her skin. These features are usually explained with a sort of longing; luminous yellow skin great humid black eyes thick golden neck (page 1).
