This essay will include an analysis and summary of the text “Baglady”. The essay will also contain a description of the characters, the setting and symbols in the story. The text “Baglady”, written by A. S. Byatt, we are introduced to a fiction short story about a middle aged woman named Daphne and she’s attending a business trip with her husband and the company he is working in, to the Far East. Daphne then experiences some oddly things on a shopping trip.
The short story starts in medias res, where we see Lady Scroop talking to the rest of the ladies about the upcoming shopping trip she has planned for them. Daphne Gulver-Robinson’s husband is in a meeting with the directors of the company “Doolittle Wind Quietus” and all the wives of the directors are breakfasting together. Most of the wives are very elegant, and Daphne feels threaten by the other …show more content…
They chat mutedly, swapping recipes for chutney and horror stories about nannies…” The wives are everything Daphne isn’t and as a reader we can see how hard it is on her, because she wants to be just like them, but she isn’t enough.
The setting in the text is very well described, with many details, for example, “Daphne Gulver-Robinson looks around the breakfast table. It is beautifully laid with peach-coloured damask, bronze cutlery, and emit guts of perfume”.
Furthermore, the story takes place in what seems to be middle east-areas. ““…, isolated by bullet proof glass from the smells and sounds of the Orient.”. Another example, “I understand that it is a real Aladdin’s Cave of treasures and all sorts of little indulgences for ourselves…”
The Good Fortune Mall could be a symbol or reflection on Daphne herself. The mall from outside looked like an army barrack or a prison. If you compare that with Daphne, “Her style is seated tweed, and stout shoes, and bird’s-nest
The short story starts in medias res, where we see Lady Scroop talking to the rest of the ladies about the upcoming shopping trip she has planned for them. Daphne Gulver-Robinson’s husband is in a meeting with the directors of the company “Doolittle Wind Quietus” and all the wives of the directors are breakfasting together. Most of the wives are very elegant, and Daphne feels threaten by the other …show more content…
They chat mutedly, swapping recipes for chutney and horror stories about nannies…” The wives are everything Daphne isn’t and as a reader we can see how hard it is on her, because she wants to be just like them, but she isn’t enough.
The setting in the text is very well described, with many details, for example, “Daphne Gulver-Robinson looks around the breakfast table. It is beautifully laid with peach-coloured damask, bronze cutlery, and emit guts of perfume”.
Furthermore, the story takes place in what seems to be middle east-areas. ““…, isolated by bullet proof glass from the smells and sounds of the Orient.”. Another example, “I understand that it is a real Aladdin’s Cave of treasures and all sorts of little indulgences for ourselves…”
The Good Fortune Mall could be a symbol or reflection on Daphne herself. The mall from outside looked like an army barrack or a prison. If you compare that with Daphne, “Her style is seated tweed, and stout shoes, and bird’s-nest