Authorial methods

• Characterization


  Pinkie:

  -violent murderous thug who lives partially in fear

  Ida:

  -persues satisfaction

  Rose:

  -seemingly naive
• Imagery


  Pinkie often consoles himself with images of hell

  Pinkies death-synonymous with hell
• Narrative perspective


  • omniscient narrator
  • focalises multiple oppositional chareceters
• Setting


  Palace pier:

  -microcosm of duplicity of brighton

  Cosmipolitan and franks boarding house:

  -contrast between high-profile colleoni and small time pinkies gang

  Nelsons palace:

  -pinkies upbringing that he avoids confronting
• Speech


  • free indirect speech
  • pinkie and gang speak in gangster language
• Tone


  • mostly serious
  • Ida provides levity