Joe drinks to dull his thinking when he gets too vexed or angry. He puts the same habit on Maria when she was disappointed about leaving the plum cake on the train.

the description of the young lady as well as the young men being impolite to Maria seems to imply that Maria doesn't belong or fit in with the young crowd

This reflects pretty poorly on the town's police force if a drunken, abusive, aggressive man can join. It seems like this job has very little screening or requirements to get.

From this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bohemian_Girl#Synopsis

The Bohemian Girl is a romantic opera where a girl gets kidnapped and taken away from her royal upbringing/father and falls in love with her kidnapper. This maybe reflects Eveline's desire for Frank to take her away from her current life and father.

The use of light in this work is really nice, with lots of vivid descriptions on shadows and light sources. It'd be interesting to try and map out the mood of the character based on the light descriptions in the surrounding text.

This opening paragraph has a lot of personification vocabulary related to sight with the streets being called "blind" and the houses gazing at each other. Perhaps this is a hint that there will be a lot of visual imagery in this text?

This is a brand of tobacco. It seems like James is also addicted to this by his response to it. Interesting because he is a reverend and probably has preached about having no idols or addiction

Ellipses seem to be characteristic of old Cotter's speech, signifying the deterioration of his mental state?

The personification of nature changes from a friendly and energy-filled female to a more witch-like persona, signifying the continuous deterioration of Mr. Neave's state of mind

Personification of the Spring as a caring, energetic, and eternal female spirit. This is heavily contrasted with Mr. Neave feeling his age and mortality

Again, the transformative nature of dancing is able to bring back Leila's passion. Dancing/the ball seems to symbolize the start of her young adulthood as she is also 18 in this story

I really like the imagery of flowers blurring together into flags by the motion of dancing. This is similar to how the "dancing" of the car made it seem that lampposts were "waltzing". The power of dancing to transform objects and people seem like a repeated theme in this story.

Similar to the beginning of the story, where the cab was described as possibly her first partner. The symbolism of a cab being a partner is interesting because it reinforces the role of the men to "steer" while the girls are along for the ride.

I came back to this section after reading the whole passage and I thought the symbolism of the old train representing the values and way of life of William vs the newness of the taxi that represents Isabel's new way of life and values was really interesting

Again the description of "new" appears, showing how the vanity of her friends has become her choice over genuine love and care for William.

Chest pains from the stress and anxiety regarding his wife and kids?

The usage of new here implies there was likely an event or thing that causes Isabel to adapt new values.

This is the first time that the young girl stammers so much, before she was very demanding and impatient, but now, as she's actually going to be left alone, she seems unsure and insecure, possibly due to her coming of age?

There is an immediate characterization of the daughter being very different than the idealistic image the mother seems to have of her daughter. The mother basically looks at her daughter as if she is an angel from Heaven in the first paragraph, but so far her daughter is rude and impatient.

Juxtaposition of the image of corruption associated with Casinos and old age with the innocence and youth of the young girl

The frequency of exclamation marks seems to be increasing as the story goes on and the sisters become more hysterical

It's interesting that she mentions that this action is being weak instead of strong when this represents her pushing against the power her father has over her, even after death.

It's interesting that Constantia is the one laying down like a corpse while it is the Colonel who is dead. Seems almost like she is in shock and her method of coping is to mimic the dead.

Laura's actions and words here seem very conflicted. She shakes her head that she isn't crying while she is and she says that her experience was marvelous while she is sobbing. This perhaps mirrors her inner conflict with her families high class values to her desire to look past class and status

This story has many mentions of different colors. Here the white road by Laura's house is contrasted heavily with the smoky and dark lane by the poorer areas where the colors seem to signify status and class.

Even with the "gift" her mother is only concerned with class and image.

Throughout the novel "three" has shown up a few times either with the Indians, the love triangle, and again with the directions here. I wonder if a dispersion plot or finding the concordance of the word or number "three" might reveal any motifs

It's almost poetic justice that the novel is nearing it's end with the death of someone who stole the Moonstone by the three Indians since the novel started off with the murder of the 3 Indians that were guarding the diamond.

This passage highlights how strong Betteredge's sense of duty and service is, even against his own morals. This highlights how Betteredge is likely heavily biased against narrating that the people he serves would do much wrong, even if he thought differently.

I am not sure how to interpret the use of the italicization here. It almost seems aggressive or angry, but there is little reason for Ezra to be mad at Candy. Perhaps it is a projection of bitterness for his situation that he cannot escape.

This is the first time "Thief" is capitalized in the novel. Will be interesting to see if it's capital anywhere else and when.

I think this section continues to highlight of Betteredge's bias of skewing reality to fit what he idolizes

This is interesting that Mr. Bruff is the first narrator and character to openly think badly of Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. So it should be important to see what this narrator says about him to fill in gaps left by other narrators.

Here, Mr. Bruff's narration sounds pretty similar to Gabriel's. It also seems like he might have similar biases since he has also had a long and good relationship with the Verinder family

I feel it is a bit odd that Godfrey is never suspected by Rachel at this point, but is held aloft as some person incapable of wrong. Similar to the name analysis on Zulip, "God"frey may be too idealized

Her name is an onomatopoeia for a sharp and sudden, obtrusive sound, similar to how she imposes herself onto people like trying to convert Mrs. Verinder

Weather has been used before to foreshadow major events. So likely something unexpected or bad will happen with this change in weather.

This song is based on the a poem by Thomas Moore from 1805. After listening to the lyrics, I can't help but think of Rosanna since the song is about the last rose of summer who's all alone, similar to how Rosanna prefers to be alone and her name has the word Rose in it. You can find more info and an audio recording here The Last Rose of Summer

Another instance of a name reflecting the traits or role of a person. English last names tend to reflect the occupation of the family, i.e. Fletcher as a last name typically comes from family that had something to do with arrowsmithing or archery.

This is interesting to see the polar opposite opinions and behaviors of these two characters as it highlights potential biases as the narrators change in the future.

This is an interesting description of religion since the other main exposure to religion is the background of the Moonstone which is entangled with violence. Meanwhile, this description relates love and religion.

The author may be bringing this up to highlight the innate malice and cruelty that humans can harbor. Could this be foreshadowing the reveal of someone's true cruel nature?

The tone of Gabriel seems to be often anxiously defensive and doubtful. I think this is also seen when he first accepts this task and from his reliance on Robinson Crusoe.

Gabriel seems prone to idolization as seen with Robinson Crusoe, his lady, and Mr. Franklin. This idolization may lead to biases and inaccurate recounting of events, so it's something to look out for.

I don't know much about the context of this novel, but I think it will be interesting to see how much we can trust this statement as we learn more about the narrator and the narrator's mental state and biases.