Does the novel suffer due to its lack of female characters? How would it have been different with, say, a female narrator? Would be very nice if I could get an answer

Yes, the novel suffer due to the absence of female characters.

Explanation:

There is no novel in which female characters are not used. By using female characters, the story of different novels can be made more interesting. Female characters play a vital role in every novel. The romantic part of the novel will no be accomplished without female character. In different novels, mostly the male was the narrator but also in some novels female narrator was used for describing the story when the story belongs to the girl itself.

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1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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