So, that's all. I hope that my stylistic analysis will be interesting and informative for you, as it in some way had changed my views on this story.

Stylistic Analysis

All the peculiarities of the characters and of the plot are presented with the ussage of different stylistic devices and expressive means

1) lexical: 

epithet - " It is the finest thing ", " the solemn hush of these dreaming solitudes", " This is sufficiently high-handed," a secluded place", " great and fine and noble education", "frightful noises", 

simile - " It looks no more like a dodo than I do.", " That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature", " not like kangaroo fur, but exactly like our hair except that it is much finer and softer,", "The new one is as ugly as the old one was at first".

metaphor - "I wish it would not talk; it is always talking. That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; "and any new and strange sound intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note" 

personification - " and I am glad because the snake talks" ,," She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of the tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education"

metonymy - "This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way", " The new creature names everything"

periphrasis - "Her mind is disordered--everything shows it. Sometimes she carries the fish in her arms half the night when it complains and wants to get to the water. At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways", " It has ceased from lying around, and goes about on its four legs now. Yet it differs from the other four legged animals, in that its front legs are unusually short, consequently this causes the main part of its person to stick up uncomfortably high in the air, and this is not attractive. It is built much as we are, but its method of traveling shows that it is not of our breed. The short front legs and long hind ones indicate that it is a of the kangaroo family, but it is a marked variation of that species, since the true kangaroo hops, whereas this one never does."

irony - " The new creature calls it Niagara Falls —why, I am sure I do not know. Says it LOOKS like Niagara Falls. That is not a reason, it is mere waywardness and imbecility.", " The new creature says its name is Eve. That is all right, I have no objections. Says it is to call it by, when I want it to come. I said it was superfluous, then. The word evidently raised me in its respect; and indeed it is a large, good word and will bear repetition. It says it is not an It, it is a She. This is probably doubtful; yet it is all one to me; what she is were nothing to me if she would but go by herself and not talk."

2) syntactical: 

ellipsis - "Been examining the great waterfall", "Built me a shelter against the rain"

aposiopesis - "I wish it would stay with the other animals. . . . Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain. . . . WE?", "I have not missed any rib. . . ."

inversion - "Hungry as I was, I laid down the apple half-eaten", "The word justification moved her admiration--and envy, too, I thought", " She doesn't work, Sundays, but lies around all tired out"

polysyndeton - "I escaped last Tuesday night, and traveled two days, and built me another shelter in a secluded place, and obliterated my tracks as well as I could", " When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws, and made a noise such as some of the other animals make when they are in distress"

repetitions - "pulled through", " This new creature with the long hair ", " I will escape"

climax - "And this new sound is so close to me; it is right at my shoulder, right at my ear, first on one side and then on the other, and I am used only to sounds that are more or less distant from me", " the result will be a great and fine and noble education "

3). phonetic: 

alliteration - " I wish it would stay", " It looks no more like a dodo than I do.", " does not look like " ;

4). graphic: 

capitalization - "I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty —GARDEN OF EDEN", " it has been new-named NIAGARA FALLS PARK", "says it LOOKS like that", punctuation - "FRIDAY. The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty —GARDEN OF EDEN. Privately, I continue to call it that, but not any longer publicly. The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. Says it LOOKS like a park, and does not look like anything BUT a park. Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new-named NIAGARA FALLS PARK. This is sufficiently high-handed, it seems to me.

Setting, plot, characters

The setting of the story is rather similar to recognise, even judging from the title. Eden. And there is no need in further description of it, but... it's done for the sake of developing the story and bringing something new to a wellknown facts.

Stop. Even if we recognize the placing, there is no name for it at first. As the story goes, the name comes. Eva creates it, as she creates names for everything arround. She bases on some unknown for Adam matters, but he exepts the name "GARDEN OF EDEN". Whatever it means.

This, along with other things which were "named" creates an atmosphere of misunderstanding between Adam and Eve, as a picture of such, between a typical men and women. And it is the WHOLE their characterisation. Their traits are widely spread among all the people and they are emphasized so greatly, that create an effect of caricature.

How can we call the plot of this story? To my mind, it is the progress from "who are you? and what for are you here?" to "where were you before for so long?". It can easily be compared with such stereotypic hollywood plots as "I hate you" in the beginning and "I love you" at the end". But it's made in such a way that it is still interesting to follow it and collect new and new funny situations.

About Mark Twain

American author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, well-known by his pen name of “Mark Twain,” served as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War broke out in 1861. The Mark Twain image shown here adorns an early Twentieth Century cigar box. Mark Twain was beloved and enjoyed public goodwill all his days.

I used to have a notion that there was only one place in the world where I could write,” American author Mark Twain once told a friend, “That was Elmira, where I used to spend all my summers. But I’ve got over that notion now. I find that I can write anywhere.”


Anywhere meant exactly that: anywhere. Twain didn’t even require a desk to write. As it turns out, Mark Twain (1835-1910), also known as Samuel Clemens, did a good deal of his writing in bed. Unlike many other authors who complained of the difficulty of the writing process, Twain did not find creative work difficult.

Just try it in bed sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees, and I scribble away. Thinking is easy work, and there isn’t much labor in moving your fingers sufficiently to get the words down.”

In his old age, Mark Twain was often photographed in his heavenly bed, smoking away on a cigar or a pipe and writing.




Mark Twain writing in his heavenly bed.

While Twain had many houses in his lifetime and all of them special, he had butone favorite bed, which he kept with him all of his life. He had bought it in 1878 in Venice, Italy, when he and his wife Olivia were furnishing their ridiculously- expensive three-story Victorian palace in a Hartford, Connecticut neighborhood known as “Nook Farm.”





The Mark Twain House in the Hartford, Connecticut, community known as "Nook Farm." Mark Twain said of this house, "To us, our house . . . had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with." (Mark Twain Wrote (and Smoked!) in Bed," Lisa's History Room)



Mark Twain's carved oak bed. ("Mark Twain Wrote (and Smoked!) in Bed," Lisa's History Room)



Mark Twain and family at Nook Farm

However foolhardy the house was, it was during those spendthrift years at Nook Farm that Twain wrote many of his best-known and most-loved works, probably while smoking in his favorite heavenly bed:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876),
The Prince and the Pauper (1881),
Life on the Mississippi (1883),
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889).

Another intro

So, before first time reading, my expectations were sufficiently high, as I'm acquainted with the works of Mark Twain and know how thrilling his plots can be. And I'm glad that my expectations came true. The story is written in a rather comic way, the events are presented with a thin coating of irony and all thoughts of a main character - Adam are easily recognisable as man's thoughts.

"This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way." From the beginning, the author persuades not to look at the story as at something serious (I don't meen not to treat it like an anekdot), but like something that was made for entertainment purposes (of course with deep thoughts hidden inside).

Intro

I've read this story a year ago, but I think it'll be very interesting to make it's stylistic analysis. The story is funny and probably instructive to a certain degree. To my mind it helps in understanding some differentiative points in a way of thinking of both genders (of course if you are going to read "Eve's diary" too). So, let's start.