The Son's Veto Analysis
Setting
One of the ways Hardy evokes a sense of contrast between the two settings with the use of triads. Evidence for these can be seen when he describes the initial setting, “…with trees and shrubs and glebe”. He then goes one to describe the second setting, the more industrial of the two as a “…vista of sooty trees, hazy air, and drab house-facades”. This helps the reader to visualize and compare the two settings, for example, when he describes the initial setting as having “trees” whilst the second setting, he describes as having “sooty trees”, making it easy for the reader to work out the differences and contrasts between the two settings.
Hardy also uses personification to enhance the image in the readers mind. He describes the village as ‘pretty’, as well as referring to the city as having a ‘drab house-façade”. This allows to reader to visualize, compare and contrast the two settings, the village and the city. The descriptive diction used also helps create a sense of contrast. This is the case when Hardy writes about the “…pale light of the evening” in the village and the “…hazy air” of the city, both of which can be described of opposites to each other, creating a further sense of contrast.
Character
Reverend Twycott, the Vicar at Gaymead, was presented as a sympathetic man, who was willing to take drastic measures to get his apology through to others. When Sophy breaks her ankle on the way to serve Reverend Twycott his food, Twycott proposes to her out of pure apology, when he exclaims, “No, Sophy; lame or not lame, I cannot let you go. You must never leave me again!” He is also portrayed as a man who will do everything to escape the social suicide he committed at Gaymead, as he was an upper class woman and Sophy was in the middle class (“Mr. Twycott knew perfectly well that he had committed social suicide by this step, despite Sophy 's spotless character”), eventually making a move to London at Sophy’s expense,
One of the ways Hardy evokes a sense of contrast between the two settings with the use of triads. Evidence for these can be seen when he describes the initial setting, “…with trees and shrubs and glebe”. He then goes one to describe the second setting, the more industrial of the two as a “…vista of sooty trees, hazy air, and drab house-facades”. This helps the reader to visualize and compare the two settings, for example, when he describes the initial setting as having “trees” whilst the second setting, he describes as having “sooty trees”, making it easy for the reader to work out the differences and contrasts between the two settings.
Hardy also uses personification to enhance the image in the readers mind. He describes the village as ‘pretty’, as well as referring to the city as having a ‘drab house-façade”. This allows to reader to visualize, compare and contrast the two settings, the village and the city. The descriptive diction used also helps create a sense of contrast. This is the case when Hardy writes about the “…pale light of the evening” in the village and the “…hazy air” of the city, both of which can be described of opposites to each other, creating a further sense of contrast.
Character
Reverend Twycott, the Vicar at Gaymead, was presented as a sympathetic man, who was willing to take drastic measures to get his apology through to others. When Sophy breaks her ankle on the way to serve Reverend Twycott his food, Twycott proposes to her out of pure apology, when he exclaims, “No, Sophy; lame or not lame, I cannot let you go. You must never leave me again!” He is also portrayed as a man who will do everything to escape the social suicide he committed at Gaymead, as he was an upper class woman and Sophy was in the middle class (“Mr. Twycott knew perfectly well that he had committed social suicide by this step, despite Sophy 's spotless character”), eventually making a move to London at Sophy’s expense,