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Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple A Pocketful of Rye Miss Marple had left St Mary Mead by early train, changing at the junction and going on the London terminus and thence of to Baydon Heath. An elderly lady travelling by train had bought three morning papers, and each of them as she finished it, she folded it and laid it aside, showed the same headline. It was no longer a question now of a small paragraph hidden away in the corner of the papers. There were headlines with flaring announcements of Triple Tragedy at Yew tree Lodge. At the station she signalled a taxi and asked to be taken to Yewtree Lodge. So charming, so innocent, such a fluffy and pink and white old lady was Miss Marple that she gained admittance to what was now practically a fortress in a state of siege far more easily than could have been believed possible. Though an army of reporters and photographers were being kept at bay by the police, Miss Marple was allowed to drive in without questions, so impossibe would it have been to believe that she was anyone but an elderly relative of the family. The old lady sat very upright, looking out of the window of the train, her lips pursed together, an expression of distress and disapproval on her pink and white wrinkled face.

What the writer’s choice of language Points Quotation What this tells us What the writer’s choice of language Marple’s Appearance ‘Lips pursed together, an expression of distress and disapproval on her her pink and white wrinkled face’ Elderly, shocked and deeply affected by murder How Marple behaves Marple’s attitude to crime Other people’s attitudes to Marple The adjectives used to describe