Реферат: Stylistic Analysis Of A Cup Of

b. Philip smiled his charming smile

ii. Mental process

I think, he exist in the story to make the final boom. Everything changes after his appearance. And he did this by saying:

a. ? She is so astonishingly pretty?

b. ? she is absolutely lovely?

c. ? I was bowled over…”

4. Lexis

Rosemary represent the rich in this story, and Miss Smith is the poor one. Depending to this situation, the words used to describe them are totally different. We can see that the words describing Rosemary are stronger than the words used for Miss Smith. The words for Rosemary are: brilliant, extremely modern, exquisitely well-dressed, quite presentable and amusing; and I think one word gives the clue of how Miss Smith look like: creature (not even a human). As we understand these two women can also be described as powerful and weak. Rosemary has the power because she has the money, and money always brings power. Miss smith is poor, so she is weak. This situation has nothing to do with their characters, if we switch the places of these two women, this time Miss Smith will be the powerful one. I mean ( money = power ).

When we think that this story is written by a woman, we can understand why Philip thought ?pretty? about Miss Smith. ? A man will never mind the social status, they always look to a woman within a different point of view ( pretty, or not pretty that?s the question! ) and this is the only thing they can think about, except football and cars.?

5. Textual and interpersonal functions

Rosemary proves her power in every dialogue. In her relationships, she is always the number one. She happen to be a commander. The first dialogue happens with the shop man and he seems like, he can do everything for Rosemary. But for me, the most important dialogue in the story is between Rosemary and Miss Smith. When I read that dialogue, a picture from my mind appeared in my eyes. I asked to myself , if I also had this kind of a dialogue, and I remember those homeless children, trying to sell me handkerchief. Just like Miss Smith, they are trying to be respectful to me. After I realised that, although I didn?t want, I treated them just like Rosemary did to Miss Smith. I think, when one feels superior, this is inescapable.

There is also another dialogue we can see between Philip and Rosemary. In that conversation, although Philip seems to be the stronger one, he could not change Rosemary?s mind. And I guess there is no one in the world can change this kind of a woman?s mind, except love.

6. Conclusion

Before making my conclusion, I read the stuff I wrote, and I saw, mainly I mentioned; how poor is Miss Smith and how rich is Rosemary, and their appearance as two different women. And within the light of these, I?m happy to write:

In conclusion, I can say that although a human is always a human, the instincts are always stronger than humanity. As we can see, at the very beginning, Rosemary was trying to be helpful to Miss Smith, but when jealousy came to the scene, she gave 3 pounds and simply kicked Miss Smith. I think this is the rule of the world, both in the wild animal life and in modern human life…

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