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My analysis based upon category of the antropocentricity with the structural elements.
One of the problems raised in the novel and the key one is the problem of upbringing. More exactly the problem of father and sons, the problem of misunderstanding.
The plot of the extract revolves around Mr. Smeeth and his speculations about his own children. The central idea of the analyzed extract is misunderstanding between two generations. The author’s message is that many parents could not understand either intentions or inside emotional experience of their children. The tone of the extract is dramatic. It could be logically divided into two parts- the “dialogue” part and the “speculations” part.
First part begins with a dialogue, which presents us a picture of an ordinary family: the mother making some dish, the father helps her, their daughter sits and watches them. Everything seems to be fine and clear. We can only judge that mister Smith strong person through his imrerative sentences. At the same time it can be conclude that another member of his family is quite meek and gentle, because short and laconic sentences, But the second part reveals the true situation about this seem-to-be-ordinary family.
It begins with the impatient grunt of Mr. Smeeth, he is upset by his daughter. Once he was fond of her, but now he is irritated. The usage of detached construction “and, for that matter, he was still fond of her” sets some border between her childhood and adolescence. He is not satisfied by her “way of acting, of looking, of talking”, by this enumeration, the author describes almost every situation of their life. The author uses such epithets to draw the portrait of Edna: “smallish girl, greyish-greenish-bluish eyes, prettyish” and they point out that she wasn’t a complete human, according to these epithets she was still in development. It proved by the usage of the diminutive suffix “ ish” Moreover, such epithets prove the idea> that she is neither a women and she is nor a little girl so this period of life can be logically the cause of fathers irritation. The contrastive phrases “being neither child nor an adult, neither dependent nor indepen­dent” underline the previous statement. Her being at home is characterized by such epithets as “languid and complaining, shrill and resent­ful, or sullen and tearful” thus making us understand that she was, as the author said in “a very silly, awkward age”. She hasn’t the idea what she wants. But the situation changed abruptly when she receives a call from her friends, it is shown by the simile “This contrast, as sharp as a sword” the author states that her behavior at home and among her friends was very different. She was not interested in the life of her family, instead, being with her friends she “sprang into a vivid personal life of her own, became eager and vivacious”. These numerous epithets reflect her young and hoity-toity nature. We can suggest that the fact that the daughter can be connected with somebody else is the most annoying fact for farher. The idea that she become older and can leave this place.
The next paragraph is devoted to the son of Mr. Smeeth – George, who is older than Edna, she is 17 and he is 20. The age gives us a hint that he is probably set his life priorities and somehow more confident in his point of view to his own life. It is proved by his absence in the very beginning< we can imagine that he was outside . But that is only partially so, according to the author: “He had no desire to stick to anything, to serve somebody faithfully, to work himself steadily up to a good safe position”. So George just tried one thing after another, selling wireless sets, helping some pal in a ga­rage, but his father believed that even working hard he could not get any positive promotion or results. Inspite of that he goes his own way in relations with father, he hasn’t hard life position und purposes. In George description there are only few epithets “promising boy” ts but he getting nowhere. But this description belongs to the childhood, but to describe his nowdays life he uses the great amount of verbs to sgows that ne a“The point was, that to George, there was nothing wrong, and his father was well aware of the fact that he could not make him see there was anything wrong. That was the trouble with both his chil­dren.”- this is the climax of the whole extract, the description of a problem which could not be dealt with, the fact that is inevitable and unavoidable.
Their father, Mr. Smeeth “no longer understood them”, his children a kind of foreigners, because they belong to a younger generation that exists in a dif­ferent world. Their behavior, their culture, their manners and way or thinking is different from people of older generation. The generation gap problem raised in this very extract is urgent though it exists many and many years.
So the problem is not new and there is only thing that one should do – accept it, and try to undergo it.+