Marilyn Godwin Analysis

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To prompt the reader into questioning their own biases, Godwin uses characterization. Imagery and word choice create an innocent tone about Marilyn. For example, she is described as wearing “little white gypsy sandals” (page 2). In this quote the author chooses to use the words “little”, “white” and “gypsy”, words associated with purity and innocence. It is unorthodox for an adult to wear such child-like shoes. This provides a stark contrast to the main character, the captain, whose every sentence appears cold and calculated as well as the unforgiving setting. He states that he is “inured to the sight of death” (1) and comfortable with the death of another man with an “objective lack of emotion” (1). “Death” is not an ugly word to him, “procedure”