First Meeting With Keller Maestro Analysis

FIRST MEETING WITH KELLER;

Adult Paul's narration offers an interpretation of events from a position of maturity and self awareness. As a result, events at the beginning of the lone ls, such as Paul's first meeting with Keller, are recounted with the tone of ones self-criticism. The opening rhetorical question and immediate answer in 'first impressions? Misleading, of course" established our expectations that pails experience of Keller at the novels opening will be changes by novels end, and that thus changes perspective of the maestro will be reflected in change and perspective of himself.
Paul's first experience of Keller is under printed by fascination with his strangeness, depicted through a cumulative if sensory details: "d glow of his face.......pitted, sun-coarsened skin.....white linen, freshly pressed....". Contrast evoked between the european culture and crumbling old piano teacher and the vulgar, unsophisticated world of Darwin pub beyond the pub beyond the room. Paul's narrative declaration that he'd "seen nothing like him before", is supported by the distictively visual break down of the mans physical features: "migrant-height", "white , sparse, downy" hair."prince-new" and "dainty faintly ridiculous hands"
Keller's hands represent his complexity; the "small and
Megan discovers with disappointment, is "too selfish....to used to being desired" to be an enjoyable lover. The cumulative description of her "floppy, inert like something wanting to be kneaded" contrast with the description of Paul's and Rosie "in an agony of touching and pleasures, fired by the kind of passion and inventiveness that only two frustrated loners were capable of "; the use of the plural first person pronoun in this passage position Rosie ad Paul's romantic match, supported by the common identification as an