Directly describe the girl's expectation of good love and longing for a happy life. This kind of beautiful texts often more able to reflect the misery of girls. Girl didn't forget to look forward to life in a difficult situation, more reflecting the world's cold. Push the plot and inspire reader's interest in reading.

Psychological depiction of a girl's boyfriend reflects his fear and regret. It seems be a direct description, in fact, implying the author's helplessness to the girl. It also makes readers look forward to the dialogue between the lady and the man below.

Daughter's life in the boarding house is not happy, even though there are many guests chatting with her. She is very careful about her love but she is looking forward to as well. She hides her mind from her mother, making more reader's sympathy for the girl who live in such a family atmosphere.

First, it was about the terrible family situation of lady. Her husband's laziness and irritability highlight her difficult situation. And it is with the appearance of boarding house. Showing the lady's independence also invisibly leads to the tragic fate of her daughter.

Her memories of her childhood were full of her expection for happiness. She expected herself to be as beautiful as ever. Unlike her love life above，what readers can feel here is the sourness of a woman's desire for happiness in a difficult life.

The text directly reflected the helplessness and embarrassment of the woman. Although she said she didn't want love but she was really sad inside. Although there is not much writing, it can give the reader more sympathy.

Although life is difficult but she can still maintain the love of life. Behind the warm words is full of the author's praise of people's hope of a cold society that readers can see. And inspired the reader's interest in what she will meet.

It seems to be people's love for maids, but it was implicit in sympathy for the maid's humble identity. It also makes readers more interested in the following story.

Another indication that the uncle's mind is somewhat clouded by alcohol.

Joyce communicates beautifully the confused turbulence of the boy's feelings; we know he is upset, and that he knows he is upset, yet until now he has externalized all his anguish, speaking of the mood of the house, the unpleasantness of the air and the deceitfulness of his heart (as if it were an object outside himself). Here he first speaks of an "I" in anguish, and we sense from the repetition of "I" in the next paragraph that a realization is coming.

The metaphor is so vivid to demonstrate the boy's "confused adoration". Also, I also want to figure out the regular pattern of such moving description, such as the characteristic of the romantic story(i.e. the commonly used words)

What a touching description! Dancing dress and rope show us the beautiful adolescent crush of the boy.

“Poor James" appears frequently.

It looks so strange when "dusky" and "golden" appear at the same time.

In this first-person perspective, we never quite know who the "I" is in this story. Now it is clear: "I" am a young man.

In previous reading, ellipsis is more used to express the hidden feelings of the character, which are strong but constrained. However, in this place, the ellipsis shows the character's speech characteristics: intermittent and incoherent. This also indirectly reflects the age of the characters. Therefore, the study of ellipses will be very interesting.

Feeling both lost and unappreciated within his family unit, Mr. Neave retreats into sleep and dreams of an old man walking up an endless flight of stairs, which symbolizes Mr. Neave’s growing anxiety about his retirement and the unease he feels about the life he has led.

I think we can tell his emotional ups and downs by searching for the repeating words, to map his emotion.

The structure like "H'm, h'm!" and "Well, well" appears quite frequently, which shows old Neave's helplessness and disappointment.

The daughters seem content living with one another and their mother while Mr. Neave pays for their parties, horses, sports, and seaside vacations.

It seems that Mr. Neave is so distrustful to his son. How then can Mr. Neave leave his business to Harold in good consciousness not knowing if it will remain successful? If the business fails, who will support his family?

Having reached his own high standards, Mr. Neave is disappointed by his children’s lack of discipline and ambition. He is especially disappointed in his son, Harold. Mansfield uses effeminate language to describe Harold’s appearance. It seems that Mr. Neave thinks his son is unnaturally beautiful for a man with full lips and eyelashes. Mr. Neave believes Harold has been overly petted and pampered by the women in his life, especially by his mother and sisters.

The fat man himself seems to live in his own twisted reality, continuing to dance at the ball long after the proper time has passed, but he refuses to stop. His suggestion that Leila should not be allowed to dance once she gets older and fatter is sexist and hypocritical. His words temporarily shattered Lelia's illusions. Is her partner really that great? Is the floor really that slippery?Poor Leila.

"Her First Ball" has a very ambiguous ending. The change in Leila's behavior, her willingness to accept that she would one day grow old, suddenly seemed less important than the novelty of the next dance. Interestingly, she did not recognize the fat man when she saw him again. Maybe she had forgiven him, or maybe she was having so much fun that she didn't realize he was the one who had made her angry. Perhaps she, too, had returned to her comfortable but distorted reality.

Leila's mother finally came to the stage, which perhaps resolve the mystery of Leila's place of birth and living environment.

The detail description is so fascinating.

Personification is commonly used in Mansfield's story. It's so interesting when everything is lively. Also we can feel the excitement of Leila.

Is it the first time for Leila to come to the city? At first I thought that Leila is just an example who has good parenting and whose parents don't allow their child to participate in a ball. But now I get confused since the road and the gay couples on the pavement both seem to be new to her. Where is she from?

The meaningful apostrophe always tells a lot, whose appearance always symbolizes the extension of the character's emotion. This apostrophe emphasize the excitement of Leila.

Isabel is strong-willed and playful. Her anger at William’s intrusion on her new life stems from the guilt she feels at having abandoned him. Despite her strength of character, Isabel is not able to resist the call of her friends and their influence. Her transformation into the “new Isabel” is complete when she leaves William’s letter unanswered.

William fondly recalls the past, believing the life he shared with Isabel in their small home in London and the early years of their marriage to be the happiest of times. He only became aware of his wife’s discontent after she returned from Paris with Moira Morrison. Her adventures in France were so transformative that when Isabel returned William found her much changed and unfamiliar with the “new Isabel.”

Perhaps William was afraid to confront Isabel, knowing she preferred her new life with her friends than her old life in London with him.

The use of semicolon in this paragraph is interesting. William imagined so many scenes that they met, which implied that he was still concerned about the new Isabel.

Isabel's friends appeared. William seemed not to like them so much. Also we can make an assumption that they are the catalyst to make the new Isabel.

It seems that the word 'new' is a keyword in MARRIAGE A LA MODE. The new Isabel, the new way. So how about the past Isabel?

The gender of the narrator is also intentionally ambiguous, perhaps to gain a more objective view of the beauty of young girls. Like the little girl, the narrator is nameless. Although the lack of her identity causes ambiguity, her identity is a stripping of her identity and only shows her external beauty to the world. The narrator, of course, not only sees the beauty of the little girl, but also wonders why she sometimes behaves so badly. When the narrator asks for permission to smoke on the tea table, it implies the gender of the narrator, which is a social need for a man to ask for permission from a woman at this time. Hennie, 12, may prefer to be with a male caretaker. Similarly, the young girl's shyness, her uncomfortable behavior around the male will continue around the narrator if he is male.

In this story, the author intentionally creates an unstructured story again that centers on a brief encounter between the narrator and two young acquaintances, without a fixed beginning. The story is told in the media, without character descriptions or background descriptions. Instead, Mansfield allows the characters' stories and their surroundings to unfold as the story progresses. The identities of the two main characters; However, it remains a mystery.

Why the beautiful girl who has blue eyes, lightly flushed cheeks and wears blue dress is so rude? She speaks wearily, which is totally different from her appearance.

He talked a lot at first, but when he blurted out that he didn't know whether his father liked meringues or not, his aunts were very disapproving. Thus, in their hearts, we can see that how important father is, which indirectly reflects their father's influence and control and their own life is how insignificant!

In the west, tea is often accompanied by a snack. But daughters were so afraid of asking for anything from the maid that they kept their request to a minimum: just two cups of tea. How ridiculous and cowardly!

On the morning of the third day after father’s death, the two daughters went to their father's bedroom to put away his things. They asked each other if they were ready, but no one dared go first into his bedroom. It is obvious that they had to be well prepared to go into his room. In this ellipsis, their fear and cowardice are maximized. In fact they had already entered the room, and they were so frightened that they forgot that they have opened the door by themselves just now.

The author writes 'bury' as 'bu-bury', which is so interesting. In the dash, we can read the trembling tones of the daughters, the panic in their hearts, the difficulty in accepting their father's death.

Every time an ellipsis appears, it seems to be a time when the daughters' minds wander. For them, having regular sit-down meals at the proper times is a trial. However the truth is, their father has been dead, so they can do whatever they want, but they don't. We can see the father's deep-rooted influence on them.

After her father died, her thoughts were still on her clothes. Will her beautiful dressing-gowns look good if dyed black? Poor colonel!

After roughly reading the whole article, it is not difficult to find that the punctuation of this story is very meaningful, with many dashes and ellipses. The apostrophe here suggests that their minds wander, confused and making hasty decisions, trying to remember where to start. The apostrophes in the text tell readers how helpless their daughters are after their busiest week.

No matter what happened, they always put their own appearance and clothes in the first place.

Mrs. Sheridan satirized the chap's irresponsibility for the family with a touch of irony. It's a mockery of the lower-class people's fate from the upper-class.

This topping hat is the symbol of upper class. Laura took it and wore it, receiving compliments from people. Is it the implication of her shift? From a lovely girl to a heartless lady like her mother and Jose?

It must be interesting to study the adjectives used in this article when death occurs. Different people have different reactions. The most prominent, is that Mrs. Sheridan is relieved and still keeps her focus on her big new hat. And in the following sentences, Laura is breathless, half-choking and astonishment while Jose is amused.

The reaction of Godber's man is so unreasonable. He took such a playful attitude when people of his own class had suffered the misfortune, which implies the indifference of the contemporary society.

"bread-and-butter" again! In such a short story, the bread-and-butter appears four times, prompting people to delve into the meaning behind it.

Judging from the series of questions, the theme of the article has already come out.

In Laura's description, karakas has human character, and is lovely. Not only does it imply Laura's personality, but also her character and morals are revealed.

In this paragraph, some words have cast light on the motif, such as 'upbringing', 'respectful' and 'workman', which are all about class consciousness.

Different from the narrative in the MoonStone, the writer of the Garden Party is good at detail description, like the color and so on. If we make research on the colors, maybe it will come about some interesting results. By the way, his (or her) scenery description in the first paragraph is so attractive!

I thought it would be interesting to analyze when an article uses all capital letters for a person's name and when it uses lowercase letters.

We can notice that Cuff likes to break a sentence into several parts. If we count the average number of words in all sentences, Cuff's data maybe is the smallest.

Cuff's narrative style is very different from other narrators, more like a report after investigation than a description. List of numbers make the narrative so organized.

As a sergeant should be, his narrative is very coherent with a lot of conjunctions, such as "in the first place", "first","then" and so on.

The first trait of Cuff's narrative is that he likes to use "-" to make supplementary explanations, as well as parentheses.

Gradually we can read his caution, prudence, and even a sense of inferiority and cowardice in his bones. What brought these to him? Was it growing up in the colony? Was it his distinctive appearance?

The first feature I have found about Jennings's narrative is that Jennings usually uses rhetorical questions to express his own feelings.

After the appreciation for Franklin, Jennings shows his respect for another person, Rachel, again.

The following is Jenning's long internal monologue. So many questions! He is flattered to be treated kindly for the first time. What a kind and poor man.

Rarely has Betteredge been so emotional. Franklin regards Betteredge's objection to this experiment as 'prejudice', which shows his determination to prove his innocence.

Unlike Miss Clark, Mr Franklin seems like a calm narrator. Even when he heard his father's dead, he just said that "It informed me that my father was dead", which implies that his narrative maybe is more objective. However, when it comes to Rachel, he can't hold back his emotion any more, and the strong love bursts out.

It's easy to find that there are quite a lot of dialogues in Blake's narratives. If we do the count, the third narrative must have the most amount of "?".

Is it an irony？Mr.Bruff has always been objective, except when it comes to Godfrey.

Here comes the document evidence. It's a pocket-book, which gives more information about the Moonstone and the mysterious Indian legends.

The mysterious Mr.Luker reappeared. Follow the guidance of Bruff, maybe we can find more information about him, since Miss Clack doesn't talk much concerning him.

So far, three narrators have implied three different attitudes towards Mr. Godfrey. Bruff doesn't seem to like Godfrey that much, which is totally different from Miss Clack. There must be more secrets in Godfrey.

Bruff makes some explanations about why people can examine Lady Verinder's will. So friendly he is to the readers!

In this paragraph, it's clear that Bruff also has the habitat of writing something in the parenthetical asides. He has the mixed style of Betteredge and Miss Clack, which means sometimes he adds some information and sometimes he expresses his own views or feelings.

Bruff describes Miss Clack as his fair friend. However, when Miss Clack mentions Bruff in her narrative , her description doesn't seem so friendly. It's so strange!

Miss Clack usually adds some information in the parenthetical asides, which is quite different from Betteredge.

"at the eleventh hour ”means at the last possible moment or opportunity. I don't think I can believe her description now. She wears coloured eyes to both: has a fanatical admiration and great respect for Godfrey, and a dislike of Rachel.

When it comes to describing Mr.Godfrey, Miss Clack prefixes the name Dear. However, she used some ugly words to describe Rachel. It seems that she has a s strong bias against Rachel.

This is an irony clearly. I even read a hint of revenge in it! She is filled with anger at being ignored by her relatives, which is likely to affect the objectivity of her narrative.

What an emotional narrator! Miss Clack like using exclamations to express her strong feelings to this story. We can distinguish the difference of narrators by counting the number of "!" they use in their parts.

Sunday-school means a school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays. Therefore, this implies that she is a Christian. Also, her enthusiasm for Christianity is also clearly expressed many times.

It seems that Miss Clack had an aversion to Mr. Betteredge. However, they are the first two narrators of this story! It predicts that the style of their narratives will be entirely different, so will their perspectives on this case.

This reveals that the first narrative came from Miss Clack's diary, and she wrote down this part just to earn some money. Maybe we can infer Miss Clack's quality from it.

This chapter increases the readers' concern and sympathy for the fate of the character through complex dialogues with others and hard environmental depictions. This is different from a direct depictions of the character's experience, the way of reacting to reality through other characters often brings readers a deeper impression, increasing the depth of text.