Genre.

The exemplar romance genre.

• The narrative is in the third person - restricted narrative voice.
• From the female point of view, her thoughts and feelings are focused on.
• Colour - description of red, associated with love, danger, dark and sexy. She is marked out as different (everyone is in black).
• Red lips - confidence, attention seeking, drama, sexual (connotations of red)
• Sentences structures: various lengths and types. Shows control.
• Idealised body descriptions - superficial - lexical choices to associate perfection "flawless body", "custom-made suit" - wealthy & power, attractive.
• Mask = mysteriousness
• Narrative voice - because we are seeing it from her pov, we don't know who is it, the mask is the narrator.
• Secrecy - "hidden", "masks"
• feeling very conscious; narrative female voice, stereotype of women being self-conscious.
• Details of backstory drop in.
• Connotations - erotic.
• New York fitting in with the theme of glamour, power, wealth. - City living.
• Cliché & stereotypes.
• Superficial - she and the man are objects.
• Connecting - story is about.
• innuendo - sexual connotations, interpreted in other ways.