Prose Prospectus #3 for Monday

Please complete a prose prospectus for the passage available here. I included a proper prompt for you to guide your work with the text. I realize the prompt tells you to write an entire essay, but please just follow the prospectus guidelines available in previous posts. Please note however, that I have added a "thesis" element as part of the prospectus process.

For those of you still struggling with the prose prospectus idea, I am including an example below based on the story "The Other Paris."



My Example:

Title and Author of Passage: “The Other Paris” by Mavis Gallant

Approximate Era of Passage: Modern

New Vocabulary: none (it was a pretty simple passage.)


Devices you would mention in your essay: direct/indirect/ characterization, Narrative Voice, imagery Irony, Satire, Diction, setting, point of view.

****Answer to the prompt question as thesis****: Gallant presents a scathing criticism of passionless and depersonalized expectations of marriage based on social convenience and money through her use of characterization and ironic narrative voice.

Essay Organization:

Intro
Paragraph 1: Carol (indirect char, imagery, setting, voice/tone, satire, irony)
Paragraph 2: Howard (diction, direct char, voice/tone, satire, irony)
Conclusion

Key Quotations for support: I think you know what I want for this.

Insights, Inferences, Interesting stuff:

Both Carol and Howard seem easily influenced by others and socially awkward
Both seem very business like: he by nature, she by training
Ironically, their dispassion makes them suited for each other (maybe good conclusion idea)
Paris setting is ironic


One Analytical Unit: Gallant begins with an ironic contrast between the idyllic imagery of Carol’s imagined proposal, replete with “moonlight”, “barrows of violets”, “misty backgrounds”, and that most iconic of Romantic images the “Eifel tower”, juxtaposed with the prosaic reality of being proposed to at lunch over a “tuna-fish salad.” The disparity of these two images, strengthened by the olfactory unpleasantness of a smelly and boring lunch option, creates from the beginning an air of ridiculousness the permeates the passage, letting the reader know that Carol and Howard’s relationship is subject of her critical ridicule.