Indledning
The short story by Julia Darling called “The Dress” is written in 2006. The story concerns issues in a family the two sisters Rachel and Flora as well as their mother and we don´t know who´s the elder and who´s the younger sister.
Rachel has bought a light green dress to wear at the dinner to celebrate their mother´s fortieth birthday.
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Uddrag
The narrator has made great use of contrast settings in the short story´s structure. Julia Darling establishes positive images against negative ones, they both add greater effect and intense vision in the context.
For example, Rachel's anger is followed by a description of an idyllic birthday morning:” Rachel picked up the hanger and threw it into the floor. She wanted to hurt someone.
At one end of the table was a neatly folded pile of used wrapping paper left over form that morning, when Flora and Rachel had sat watching their mother opening her gifts” (p. 8, l. 19-21).
The narrator’s point of view is omniscient and therefore can be able to go in and out of every person's mind whether it´s a major or minor character.
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