Genre
Novel
Setting and Context
Set in Leda’s rented apartment, Italy
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative (Written in Leda’s point of view)
Tone and Mood
Fearful and reflective
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Leda.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between Leda’s past and the present.
Climax
The climax comes when Elda finds the lost daughter of a Neapolitan family.
Foreshadowing
Leda's divorce from her husband was foreshadowed by her nasty relationship with her biological mother.
Understatement
The powerful influence of memories is understated in the text.
Allusions
The story alludes to Leda's past and how it conflicts with her present.
Imagery
Sight imagery is depicted to readers when the author describes the dressed doll.
Paradox
The main paradox is that after Lead rents an apartment at the seashore to concentrate on her writing and reading, instead, she goes back to the memories she is trying to run away from.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The doll is used as a metonymy for flashback
Personification
The doll Nani is personified.
