• THE WRITER USES THE VERB ‘ENCOURAGED’ TO SHOW PAT IS PLEASED TO MEET BRUCE.

• SHE USES DIALOGUE TO SAY SHE LIKES ‘THE STREET’, ‘THE PART OF TOWN’ AND THAT IT ‘SEEMS QUIET.’ THIS SUGGESTS SHE LIKES A LOT ABOUT THE FLAT BEFORE SHE HAS EVEN SEEN IT.

• HOWEVER, SHE USES THE ADJECTIVE ‘RICKETY’ TO DESCRIBE THE BOOKCASE WHICH SUGGESTS SHE THINK IT’S OLD.

• SHE USES THE NOUN ‘DISTASTE’ TO SHOW SHE THINKS THE SOFA IS HORRIBLE.

• SHE ALSO THINKS THE SOFA HAS BEEN ‘BATTERED AND HUMILIATED.’ THESE VERBS SUGGESTS THE SOFA HAS SUFFERED YEARS OF ABUSE.

• SHE THINKS THE SOFA CONTAINS LOTS OF HIDDEN THINGS FROM PREVIOUS PREOPLE, ‘OTHER BITS AND PIECES.’

• THE WRITER USES SAYS THE ROOM IS ‘NOT CHEAP’ TO SUGGEST SHE THINKS BRUCE IS CHARGING HER TOO MUCH FOR THE ROOM.

• THE WRITER USES THE ADVERB ‘TENTATIVELY’ TO SUGGEST BRUCE FEELS ANXIOUS ABOUT ASKING PAT FOR THE RENT.

• THE WRITER USES THE VERB ‘RELAXED’ TO SHOW BRUCE FEELS AT EASE ONCE PAT SAYS SHE WILL ‘PAY IN ADVANCE.’

• THEY BOTH ‘SMILE’ WHICH SUGGESTS THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH EACH OTHER.

• THE WRITER TELLS US THAT PAT THINKS ‘BRUCE SEEMED FINE’ AND REMINDED HER OF AN ‘UNTHREATENING’ COUSIN. THIS ADJECTIVE SUGGESTS SHE DOESN’T FEEL INTIMIDATED BY BRUCE.

• PAT DESCRIBES HIM AS ‘GOOD LOOKING’ AND THE READER FEELS SHE IS ATTRACTED TO HIM DESPITE HER SAYING SHE WOULDN’T BECOME INVOLVED WITH ‘SOMEONE LIKE THAT.’

• THE WRITER USES THE NOUN ‘GIRL’ TO SUGGEST BRUCE SEES HER AS IMMUATE AND THAT HE IS IN CONTROL.

• BRUCE SAYS THE AGE GAP MIGHT BE ‘A PROBLEM’ AND ‘CRUCIAL.’ THIS ADJECTIVE SUGGESTS BRUCE THINKS THE AGE GAP MIGHT BE THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN A

SUCCESSFUL STAY IN THE FLAT FOR PAT. ALTHOUGH HE COULD MEAN ROMANTICALLY TOO.

• THE WRITER USES SHORT SENTENCES WITH ADJECTIVES TO SHOW BRUCE DOESN’T THINK PAT IS SPECIAL ENOUGH FOR HIS ATTENTION, ‘COMFORTABLE...UNDISTURBING. AVERAGE.’ THE USES THE VERB ‘REFLECTED’ TO SHOW BRUCE IS REALLY MULLING OVER PAT HAS A POTENTIAL PARTNER.