Genre
Novel
Setting and Context
Set in 2017 in the context of friendship and relationships.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Tense, funny, sanguine and enlightening
Protagonist and Antagonist
Frances is the protagonist of the story.
Major Conflict
The major conflict is that Frances is not private property because she is a poet and feminist. Consequently, being in public life creates tension for her and those people that she comes across.
Climax
The climax comes when Frances meets a couple, Melissa and Nick, in a spoken poetry event. Nick and Frances start being closer and they end being romantic. Melisa later realizes that the relationship ends badly.
Foreshadowing
The unstable relationship between Frances and her friends is foreshadowed by her decision to start a romantic relationship with a married man.
Understatement
The trusting friendship between Frances and Bobbi is understated. Besides being a close friend to Frances, Bobbi spilled the beans about Nick and Frances secretive relationship with Melisa.
Allusions
The story alludes to the friendships, relationships and aspirations of college students.
Imagery
Love imagery is dominant throughout the text. Despite Frances having Bobbi as her trustful and confidant friend, she gets into intimacy with Nick, Melisa's husband and the relationship blossoms very fast. The reader sees the unfolding events that led to a disastrous end in France's relationship with Nick through love imagery.
Paradox
The main situational paradox is that besides Bobbi being a close friend to Frances, she betrayed her she told Melisa about her relationship with Nick.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Melisa’s sophisticated lifestyle is a metonymy for inspiration that motivates Frances.
Personification
Poetry is personified as heartening.
