Tone and Mood in Fiction: Tutorial
Part C
How do the friends influence the narrator?

The friends have a large influence on the narrator. Almost everything we learn about the narrator is because of the friends’ actions. From the beginning, the narrator is suspicious and cautious because he knows his friends like to play practical jokes. He states, “My friends were fond of practical jokes. I do not care to know people who are not.” His friends are very kind to him and are continuously laughing, which makes him even more suspicious. Here, he describes what he thinks of his friends: “They must have planned some good joke. Assuredly I am to be the victim of the joke. Attention!” He is so paranoid by his friends’ actions that he ends up causing the incident they all laugh about.

Explanation:

for plato users

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.