The extract under discussion is devoted to Martin Eden and his social position. It’s a piece of the 3d person narration with reasoning and a dialogue.
Logically the plot falls into four parts.
The idea is that it´s a person who rules their life and such essential thing as affection may be a great motivator.
The first one introduces an occasional meeting of Martin and Ruth with Lizzie Connoly. Here the main characters – Martin, Ruth and Lizzie are revealed both directly and indirectly. Martin, a protagonist, is a real gentlemen, the metaphor “his hand went up and his hat came off” and the litotes /laɪˈtəʊ.tiːz/ “he could not be disloyal to his kind” emphasize that he was a man of honour, brave and rather decisive. Then, Ruth and Lizzie are portrayed in comparison as If they were two extremes. The author uses two similes to describe the look of both girls, but all the epithets /ˈɛp.ɪ.θɛt/ describe Ruth. Lizzie looks “not with soft and gentle eyes like Ruth’s”. “Ruth’s eyes are timid and mild as dove’s”. I think that the author gives more attention to Ruth, because he sympathizes with Martin who worships this soft, gentle, mild girl. Lizzie, vice versa, is daring. The oxymoron ɒksɪˈmɔːɹɒn “cheap finery”, that describes the closing of Lizzie, conjures up and image of a poor, but still striving for beauty girl.
The next part is the dialogue btw Ruth and Martin about the influence of origin in general and on Lizzie in particular. Using the hyperbola “there isn’t one woman in ten thousand with features as hers” and the simile “her face is clear-cut as a cameo” Ruth emphasizes Lizzie´s extraordinary beauty. But why does Martin prefer Ruth? The matter is in the way she carries herself and it depends on her background. The following anaphora /ənˈæfəɹə/ and the framing force the sad truth about girls like Lizzie “she has never been sheltered. She has to take care of herself and a young girl can´t take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like… like yours”. The latter simile leads again to Ruth, who had all these things not because of her merits, but because of her origin.
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This provokes Martin to meditate on his own origin and in his inner monologue such things as ugliness and beauty, ignorance and knowledge, lower and upper society come into collision. His meditation has distinct boundaries – it starts and end with the rhetorical questions “who are you? What are you?” and it ends with them either. The anaphora “you belong…” shows that he is not convinced with the answers he finds. Some collocations like drudges, damn U, stenches prove his lower-class origin, but the hyperbole “legion of toils” and epithets like “dirty surroundings” “stale vegetables” show his negative attitude to this poor, vulgar, unbeautiful life. He dares “to open the books, to listen to music, to tear himself away from the Lizzie Connollys…” By means of asyndeton the idea is more tensed and the culmination of the speech are the metaphoric words “ …and to love a pale spirit of a woman…. Who lives in stars”.
The last part is the conclusive one and it’s properly the answer to the question “are you going to make good?” Martin is conveyed as an enlightened person who has realized the real sense of life. The epithet “with wide eyes” and the metaphor “he lost himself in quadratic equations” are vivid enough to imagine, that with his effort, he will.
To my mind, the extract stirs various emotions. The ignorant, ugly life of lower society creates a feeling of pity with a note of aversion. The upper society, its beauty of intelligence, of being educated creates the elevated atmosphere. We see that the protagonist dares to escape from the first and to join the second. So I consider the general atmosphere to be triumphal.
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The language the author uses is rich and some typical American English expressions are used like “it´s too bad”.
In conclusion, i´d like to notice that in this very extract we see Martin in his most romantic period of life. He´s blinded with his affection and admiration of elevated life-style, but possibly, the life is not a subject to be looked at through the rose glasses.
