Explores the idea that in order to see the true feelings of
your charcaters you need to put them in a stressful
situation > they reveal their true personality
SETTING
Breaking boundaries using the house
PAGE 77 "The
thought of the hall
opened up to
strangers unsettled
me "
Foreshadowing
PAGE 80 "Bleeding
itself into the rapidly
darkening sky" >
pathetic fallacy >
typical technique
PAGE 81 "The
staircase
ascended into the
shadows"
Piano out of
tune -
metaphor
for the mood
- PAGE 93
Sense of isolation
PAGE 76 "The
family lived in
so isolated
and
precarious a
way"
PAGE 81 -
Saloon
description
PAGE 97-100 -
stereotypical use
of gore
CHARACTER
FARADAY
Becomes more
obsessive with
Hundred's Hall
PAGES
75-76
"I looked forward to the
visits; they made such a
contrast with the rest of
my workaday existence"
"small
adventurous
thrill" >
transgression
PAGE 92 -The girl
drinking wine
and smoking =
transgression
During the party, Faraday is
out of place > his mood
worsens + tension increases
> FARADAY'S MOOD LINKS TO
THE EVENT AT THE PARTY >
FARADAY CAUSED IT ?
PAGE 80
Prefers Caroline without
make up and not classily
dressed > shows he's
controlling?
links to class?
PAGE 86 -
Good for
class
differences
Different
clothes - shows
old/new world
differences
PAGE 87 + 87
PAGE 95
Betty's
uniform
PAGE 82
The Little Stranger is Faraday's
repressed emotions - Links to
the gothic idea of the double,
similar the Harker in Dracula
PAGE 96 "But I had
wished... I had
acted differently
PAGE 79 shows age
and differences
between Caroline
and Faraday