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“A Gift” Commentary In the extract form A Gift, Rahila Gupta strives to draw parallels between both the blurriness of the structure
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Mark Levi English "A Gift" Commentary In the extract form A Gift, Rahila Gupta strives to draw parallels between both the blurriness of the structure, and to depict the speakers confusing history with her partner. The author's intention in this extract is also to present this mysterious situation and the personality of the object of the speaker's affection. Finally, Gupta cogently discusses about the game of scrabble to analyze both individuals' personalities. The rapid alteration of tone throughout the extract depicts the narrator's unstable emotions with the use of limited first person narration. Resentment is elucidated with the words, "you ultimate egoist," which is a harsh connotation to it. This can also suggest the speaker's fragility concerning insults and makes us vigilant that she is susceptible personality-wise. However the sentiment of happiness intervenes whilst discussing memories warm memories of "[her] presence like an old and deep friendship with an affection which...
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