The Bloody Chamber - By Angela Carter

'Away from Paris. away from the white' - the use of ascending tricolon is used for dramatic effect, and by being within the first paragraph of the story it sets the tone. It also shows how the girl is coming 'away from girlhood' meaning she's becoming a woman, and 'the white' is representative of virginity and purity. 'Paris' is also the city of romance and love, which is rather ironic given how the story ends. 'Enclosed quietude' - this has a sexual undertone, because the sibilance gives it a sly sound, and is very sinister and ominous. No-one will be able to see what they're up to in the 'enclosed' rooms that she talks about. 'Unguessable country of marriage' - linking in with how innocent and naïve she is, because she is completely oblivious to what she's leading herself into. She sees it as a fairy-tale, whereas she has never really known what marriage is like, this could be down to her fatherless childhood and how she needs to have a man in her life. 'Moving slowly about the narrow bedroom' - the 'narrow bedroom' is symbolic of a coffin, and the language has been very ominous and not really given too much away at the same time. 'Putting away all my little relics' - highlighting how she is slowly becoming a woman, and that all of her childish toys and clothes are getting put away for the last time, before she departs and leaves for good. 'I felt a pang. becoming his wife' - the structure of the sentence if very traditionally Gothic, this is because of the over-use of commas, which slow down the pace, and make it seem more "spooky". She calls the ring a 'gold band' showing how she's just too childish to be able to commit herself to such a relationship, showing how she is perhaps attracted to