TWILIGHT BY STEPHENIE MEYER: ONLINE LITERARY ANALYSIS

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21.) The intimacy grows as they sit in the woods and it leads to this interaction:

"Be very still," he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat. I was quite unable to move, even if I'd wanted to. I listened to the sound of his even breathing, watching the sun and wind play in his bronze hair, more human than any other part of him.

With deliberate slowness, his hands slid down the sides of my neck. I shivered, and I heard him catch his breath. But his hand didn't pause as they softly moved to my shoulders, and then stopped.

His face drifted to the side, his nose skimming across my collarbone. He came to rest with the side of his face pressed tenderly against my chest.

Listening to my heart. "Ah," he sighed. (275-276)


A sense of danger is presented in the way Edward lingers over the neck, making the reader fear that he will indeed drink Bella's blood and give in to his instincts. The movements are very much in line with the slow seductive attack of a vampire on a swooning woman - the attention paid to her neck and throat, the slowness and gentleness of his movement. However, the payoff is not in a bite, but in the beatific image of a man listening to his loved one's heartbeat. When he finally rests against her chest and listens to her heart, the sigh is meant to convey relief as well as a sign of erotic satiation..............

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