SETTING

SETTING
The current Rome city In the Colosseum Rome of the past

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 SETTING
The current Rome city

 On the terrace of a restaurant in

the current Rome city, two women are
talking to one another. The terrace
overlooks the Roman Forum and the
Palatine.
 SETTING
The current Rome city In the Colosseum Rome of the past

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SETTING

In the Colosseum

 In Rome of several decades ago,

when they were younger, after Mrs.
Slade was engaged to Mr. Slade, a
major event is set in the Colosseum.
 SETTING
The current Rome city In the Colosseum Rome of the past

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 SETTING
Rome of the past

 Rome of the past is a

significant setting in the story
because it is where the major
events took place before they
are revealed in present-day
Rome.
CHARACTERS
 CHARACTERS

MAIN CHARACTERS MINOR CHARACTERS

 Delphin Slade
 Alida Slade (Mrs. Slade)  Horace Ansley
 Grace Ansley (Mrs. Ansley)  Jenny Slade
 Barbara Ansley
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Alida Slade Grace Ansley
 MAIN CHARACTERS
Alida Slade
 Middle aged rich American woman.
 Widow of Delphin Slade.
 Mother of Jenny Slade.
 Fuller and higher in color than
Grace.
 Determined and cunning woman.
 Envious, jealousy and resentful.
Grace Ansley
 Middle aged rich American woman.
 Widow of Horace Ansley.
 Mother of Barbara Ansley.
 Smaller and paler than Alida.
 Capable of betraying her best friend
for the love of a man.
 Capable of lying to her loved ones
and keeping important secrets.
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Alida Slade
 She spent all her energy living up to
Delphin-a husband all her abilities
had been engaged.
 It is a big drop from being the wife
of Delphin Slade to being his widow.
 She still wonders if she will “never
cure herself of envying” Grace.
 She admits her feelings when she
tells Grace “I hate you…I knew you
were in love with Delphin- and I was
afraid”
Grace Ansley
 She married with Horace just a few
months after her one night with
Delphin.
 More comfortable with her current
role as widow and mother.
 She has taken up knitting. She
appears calm while she knits.
 She drops her knitting after Alida’s
admission about THE LETTER, it’s a
signal of real pain: “her bag, her
knitting and gloves, slid in a panic-
stricken heap to the ground”.
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Alida Slade
 The more disturbed Alida becomes.
 When Alida Slade “burst out with
violence” in her voice.
 While Alida may have had Delphin for
25 years, she never stopped feeling
jealousy and insecure.
 When compared with Barbara,
Jenny Slade is “a little boring” and
she calls Barbara is “brilliant and
dynamic”.
Grace Ansley
 The calmer Grace seems.
 Grace Ansley’s voice “grew clearer”.
 Grace, faces life calmly and
confidently.
 When Grace reveals the truth about
Barbara, she simply turns and began
to move ahead of Alida. She ends
the story ahead of her rival.
 MINOR CHARACTERS
Delphin Slade
 Alida’s husband.
 A famous lawyer,
 Successful: always with an
international case or two on hand.
 Delphin was such a celebrity, he was
known among the elite as the Slade.
Horace Ansley
 Grace’s husband,
 Good-looking, irreproachable,
exemplary.
 The couple he formed with his wife
was representative of upper class
society in New York.
 While he was a good man for Grace,
he wasn’t the object of his wife’s
passion, in the way that Delphin had
been.
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Jenny Slade
 While Jenny plays everything safe.
 While Jenny’s safeness emphasizes
Alida’s agitated. Alida has always
played it safe herself, and as a
result has led a boring “sad life”.
Barbara Ansley
 Barbara, like her biological father , is
the center of attention all the time.
 Barbara’s confidence serves to
make her mother Grace seem more
self-assured and content.