Dead man's shoes
Anne
The Suitors
Plot/structure
Narrative technique
nearly forty
Harry Smith
town`s auctioner
oldest and a bachelor
mean to share his money
Foreshadowing
Climax
Plot events
Opening
Ending
First person, one of the suitors POV
Jamie Roy
farmer
recently bereaved
youngest
In media res
65 years old
45 years old
Maritz Grootbek
Setting
lawyer
cleverest
wife run away
Suitors came to Anne
Japie van Os
The suitors "bully" the colored worker at annes farm
Anne says "Whoever fits those- but perfectly mind!- can have me and all that I own"
Widower - lost his wife in a shooting
farmer
Fairy tale
richest
Frank Sellars
Old language, difficult
words/names
trader
Shows that it's supposed to be in the 1990s
bachelor
nicest
Hannes Snyman
butcher
many years widowed
biggest man
Narrator
teacher
divorced by a wife
becasue of him, his job and the place is dull
Everyone tries the shoes (but what they do not know is that it is Samuels shoes). No one fits the shoes and then Anne tells Samuel to try them and they fit!
Sam
Takes place in the 1990s
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Anne and Samuel plan a quiet wedding
South Africa, Cape midlands
The atmosphere reflects the narrator's personality, boring, and the text, in general, doesn't have a strong atmosphere, even though it has a climax
white brow
Anne briefly grieving, marrying a black etc
shot his wife dead
When suitors says that anne needs someone to watch the farm and protect her. But she says she already has it (Samuel?)
superstious
When the suitors are trying on the shoes, and one by one they figure out thet they do not fit
Ending with a twist
We get to know that the shoes was actully Samuels (Secound twist)
appareance
skinny
pleasant-faced
wide green eyes
Irish
flickering smile
"a voice which carried soft currents of her native Galway"
charming
works hard
Strong willed
rich
childless
Love and miss his late husband
Loves book, music and paintings
stubborn
(Symbols) The shoes, supposedly from her dead husband, but was Sam's shoes all along. The suitors never had a chance on marrying Anne
(Theme) Racism, sexism,
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Themes
Marriage
Breaking norms