The speaker of the “Hazel tells LaVerne” story repeats the line “me a princess,” indicating that her bluster is just a front for her dreams. The word choice and humorous tone of Machan’s story also reveal much about Hazel’s personality and position. The ways she uses slang, replacement of spellings, and the neglect of punctuation, a reader learn a great deal about the character, and also it shows that she has no or little of education.
The speaker of Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” uses more complicated language,