Genre
A mystical novel
Setting and Context
The events of the story take place in Rio de Janeiro within one day.
Narrator and Point of View
The story is told from the first-person point of view. It is a monologue. G.H. is a narrator.
Tone and Mood
The tone is anxious whilst the mood is dark and worrying.
Protagonist and Antagonist
G.H. is the protagonist of the story. The fear is the antagonist.
Major Conflict
It is a person vs. self type of a conflict.
Climax
“I was approaching the strongest thing that had yet happened to me. I was approaching what I think was…confidence.”
The end of the crisis is the climax of the story.
Foreshadowing
“I keep looking, looking. Trying to understand.”
It is clear that something worries the protagonist.
Understatement
“Perhaps I now knew that I would never be equal to life myself, but that my life was equal to life.”
It seems that the woman can’t get rid of her worries over her own presumed unworthiness.
Allusions
The novel alludes to Bible.
Imagery
Images of feelings are masterfully depicted
Paradox
“By not being, I was. To the degree of what I wasn’t, I was. What I am not, I am.”
The paradox is represented by means of absurdism
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
“I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”
