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How does Frayn present the Hayward Family? * innocent child perception * language and imagery * unreliable narrator * narrative style Frayn presents the Hayward family through an innocent's child's perception. We as the audience are aware of this because the child is always comparing himself to Stephen through not just himself but through his family and the childish thing is that the Haywards really aren't any better than him. For example the younger narrator has this sense of inferiority even though we as an audience know it is unnecessary, reflecting little Stephens's lack of understanding. He knows he is inferior to the Hayward family but doesn't know why: "He knows precisely, even if he doesn't know that he knows it." In comparing himself to Keith it even begins with the "already, rotted drunkenly away from the top hinge" compared with Keith's noticeably different gate "the white wicket gate on its well-oiled hinges." The fact...

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