Martin Eden Analisys

The extract under discussion is devoted to Martin Eden and his social position. It’s a piece of the 3d person narration with reasoning and a dialogue.  
Logically the plot falls into four parts.
The idea is that it´s a person who rules their life and such essential thing as affection may be a great motivator.  
The first one introduces an occasional meeting of Martin and Ruth with Lizzie Connoly. Here the main characters - Martin, Ruth and Lizzie are revealed both directly and indirectly. Martin, a protagonist, is a real gentlemen, the metaphor “his hand went up and his hat came off” and the litotes /laɪˈtəʊ.tiːz/   “he could not be disloyal to his kind” emphasize that he was a man of honour, brave and rather decisive. Then, Ruth and Lizzie are portrayed in comparison as If they were two extremes. The author uses two similes to describe the look of both girls, but all the epithets /ˈɛp.ɪ.θɛt/ describe Ruth. Lizzie looks “not with soft and gentle eyes like Ruth’s”. “Ruth’s eyes are timid and mild as dove’s”. I think that the author gives more attention to Ruth, because he sympathizes with Martin who worships this soft, gentle, mild girl.   Lizzie, vice versa, is daring. The oxymoron   ɒksɪˈmɔːɹɒn   “cheap finery”, that describes the closing of Lizzie, conjures up and image of a poor, but still striving for beauty girl.
The next part is the dialogue btw Ruth and Martin about the influence of origin in general and on Lizzie in particular. Using the hyperbola “there isn’t one woman in ten thousand with features as hers” and the simile “her face is clear-cut as a cameo” Ruth emphasizes Lizzie´s extraordinary beauty. But why does Martin prefer Ruth? The matter is in the way she carries herself and it depends on her background. The following anaphora /ənˈæfəɹə/   and the framing force the sad truth about girls like Lizzie “she has never been sheltered. She has to take care of herself and a young girl can´t take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like… like...