1. What is the narrative method of the selection? Who tells the story? What attitude does the narrator assumes? What is the composition of the selection? Does the story logically develop? What span of time does it cover? Who and what are the main characters? How are they delineated - explicitly or implicitly? Which technique of the character portrayal prevails?
2. It is a one scene selection (narration). It's quite realistic. What contributes to the credibility of subject-matter, to the vivid impression of the setting? What atmosphere does the setting create? Comment on the vocabulary in the first paragraph which produces the impression of a museum?
3. What role does the description of Breasley's collection play in portraying of the visitor? What testifies to his competence in art? Whose voice do we hear in the evaluation of the paintings - the narrator's or the protagonist's? What is the role of inner represented speech intermingled with the narration? What is the tonal slant of the former and the latter? How is the tone maintained (by what stylistic devices)?
4. The second part is detailed (scrupulous, minute) description of the ``Moonhunt'', Breasley's well-known picture (parallelism, incomplete sentences). What is the role of such scrupulous description? How does it help to reveal Breasley's personality, his contradictory nature? What stylistic devices does the author resort to to create a full-blooded character of an old notorious avant-garde painter (avant-gardist)? What kind of painter and person does Breasley emerge from the passage?
5. The third part of the selection. In what way does it differ from the previous parts (in terms of narrative methods, vocabulary, style, general tone)? Does it confirm the impression of the painter as an eccentric or does it contradict it? What means of characterization does the author employs here (direct, indirect - explicit or implicit)? What effect is achieved by the use of color words? By the method of contrast? What's the role of direct speech - does it contribute to making the protagonist well?
6. Though it is only a short selection, does it manifests Fowles' craftsmanship of psychological portrayal of his characters and veritability of the narration?