Genre
Self-help
Setting and Context
Set in Brooklyn and Australia
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Enlightening and optimistic
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Delaney, and there is no antagonist.
Major Conflict
There is a major conflict between Delaney and the wellness industry. Delaney discovers that the wellness industry is profit oriented.
Climax
The climax comes when Delaney finishes her wellness schedule and returns to work.
Foreshadowing
Wellness trends foreshadow Delaney's desire for a thinner and more sexy body.
Understatement
There is an understatement when Delaney says that fasting for three months is not highly toxic.
Allusions
N/A
Imagery
The narrator describes her wellness schedule to paint a picture of the activities a person must undertake when desiring to have a perfect body.
Paradox
The main paradox is that Delaney knows the devastating implications of fasting for three months but ignores her clinician's advice.
Parallelism
There is a parallelism between Delaney's assertion that her career's excellence depends on her perfect body and the wellness industry's argument that excellence equals an ideal body.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The author personifies the wellness industry by saying it aims to make huge profits.
