2011 AP Question 2

Michael D. Morrow

April 7, 2014

AP Literature

6^th period

2011 AP Question 2

            In the novel, Middlemarch, the author George Eliot uses the literary devices narrative perspective and selection of detail. Both devices plays an important role in this excerpt, being that this piece is written in narrative perspective and selection of detail portrays the relationship of the newlyweds, Rosamond and Lydgate.

            To begin with, Eliot starts showing the couple’s money problems. Not only does the “money problems” bring a negative connotation words like: unkind, disobedience, weeping, and disliked. The words bring a feeling of disdain in the relationship and displays their surrounding as unhappy. He uses this to show the struggles of the typical newlyweds.

            Moving along, the piece is written in third person omniscient point of view. By it being in this point of view, the reader is able to have a clear explanation of the characters’ mindset, feelings, and thoughts. Being in third person omniscient point of view, the narrator has no need to form an opinion or having a one-side view.

            In conclusion, George Eliot depicts the struggles between couples during the beginning of the marriage. The employment of the negative connotive words and the use of third person omniscient point of view convey the problems everyone has.