Summary Of Behind The Scenes At A Museum By Kate Atkinson

In the novel “Behind the Scenes at a Museum,” Kate Atkinson uses a range of different language, literary devices and style to create a sense of loss, grieving and discordance throughout the extract, by displaying the impact of the death of Gillian on the rest of the family. She creates this atmosphere by her uses of symbolism and imagery which she uses to convey the brokenness and disorder of the Lennox household, after Gillian’s death, which she portrays from the eyes of a young child called Ruby.
In the novel, the author uses abbreviations to describe the “AG (After Gillian) era” and the “BG [era]”, to convey the defined contrast between life before Gillian’s death and after her death and how much has changed and broken in that time. In the