Style of writing in lines 142-147

Here we include an analysis of the style of writing in lines 142-147 of the short story "Slut Trouble" by Beejay Silcox. This is the final scene where the narrator, Laura, is lying in the tent in the garden after playing a violent game with Megan.

The choice of words reflects Laura’s perspective – an enhanced awareness of her surroundings: “Everything seems louder, the smell of chloroformed rag, the sheep-stink of the wool, the crushed leaves of the peppermint tree.” (ll. 145-146). Here, we notice descriptive language connected to smell, touch, and sound which creates an intimate, slightly frightening atmosphere in which the narrator realises that she wants to be kidnapped because it would mean that she has become someone special and worth desiring. Her heightened senses suggest her sexual awakening and the self-understanding she gains here.

The author switches between medium-length, descriptive sentences and short sentences in which the same idea is repeated in a slightly different form:

And so I wait. I hear the gate in the fence thump open, and the back door of the Henderson ho...

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