Willa Cather's Characterization Technique in Neighbor Rosicky

His skin was mottled with an increasing capillary refill time. Schmidt and Mandel (2008) suggest this is a sign of hypoperfusion as the skin is vasoconstricting due to the redirection of blood flow to the core organs.

o “everything about him was old except for his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”

He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all around him. She had become a physical necessity.”

letter “imprinted in his flesh”(240). So, not only was he scarred inside, but also outside.

". . . the lower portion of the body was red to red-purple. . ."

The lower jaw was big and a chin was developed. It had small incisors on the upper and lower jaws for nipping the vegetation.

“He stood in the doorway in his long bathrobe. He had been in bed and his hair was slightly awry from the pillows and his face was a little pale. I have taken good care of him and he still looks young-not more than forty-but his cheekbones worry me. They are sharp and white.”(Rich 211-212)

His eyes are oblong and slanted downward. The pupil in his right eye is small, however, the pupil in his left eye is missing completely. His nose is narrow and tall. The ball of his nose is pointed and his nostrils are small. His mouth is wide. His upper lip is thin and his lips are slightly parted, exposing two sharp, white teeth. There is little definition between his chin and his neck. His ears are pointed and extend past the top of his head. Between his ears is a modest patch of hair. The individual strands are carved and appear to be straight. The patch on which the hair is carved is lighter and more yellow-toned than the rest of his skin. The surface of most of his skin is smooth and has no scarification

The lips themselves were short and slightly drawn back over teeth of an exquisite and almond whiteness. Nothing disturbed the arrowy nose in its short, tense flight; the hair was dark, the ears small, and fitted closely to the head. But, alas, that these catalogues of youthful beauty cannot end without mentioning forehead and eyes. Alas, that people are seldom born devoid of all three; for directly we glance at Orlando standing by the window, we must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were temples

It was hard to catch against his tanned skin, but his cheeks were flushed more than could be explained away by the heat, and his

Which states that even though she knows that he has a deformity on his face, she still chooses to think of him as her “angel of

he had long iron-grey hair. That his age was about sixty. That he was a muscular man... When at last I put the glass to him, I saw with amazement that his eyes were full of tears” (247, 249).

Blood still streamed down his lip and down his arm where they slashed through his clothes and skin. He pointedly avoid his reflection, his entire face hurt. The dry crack of blood in his hair itched, but he knew if he scratched he’d just cause

His broad shoulders, combined with a thin build, had him appear much taller than his measured