Winnie-the-Pooh offers an assessment of his abilities and his personality that also reflect a larger view of the archetype: the innocent youth. Milne offers his reader subtle hints of Pooh’s personality when he says, “He could see the honey. He could smell the honey. But he couldn’t reach the honey.” (Milne 14) Milne’s repetition and use of the anaphora is key to understanding Pooh and his charisma. Milne uses the ambiguous pronoun “he” in all three sentences, which serves to show that Milne points to Pooh and his actions, however, does not explicitly mention that and can only be interpreted by the context surrounding the quotation. The author goes on to use an anaphora when he repeats, “he could” which is in the affirmative, which contrasts
