1. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? By Jeanette Winterson
Structural analysis
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By Jeanette Winterson

2. LITERARY GENRE
Memoir
In the book J.Winterson collects the principal episodes of her life describing them with emotions and feelings
There isn’t a respect of chronology
J.Winterson tells her story in first person narrator without the use of dialogues
A memoir is a collect of significant experiences, isn’t an autobiography

3. DEDICATION Ann S. birth mother Constance Winterson adoptive mother
J.Winterson dedicates the novel to three mothers:
Ann S birth mother
Constance Winterson adoptive mother
Ruth Rendell literature mother ( she is an essential figure for the novelist regardin to the literary contest )

4. THE MEANING OF THE BOOK’S TITLE
Why is a question which belongs to all men’s life
Be and Could represent the up-to-date and the hypothetical condition of the life
Happy humanity’s aim
Normal static condition devoid of changes

5. ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTERS
The novel is constituted by fifteen chapters:
CHAPTER The Wrong Crib
TITLE: it remainds to the idea of mistake regarding to the adoption
Description of Constance Winterson
J. Winterson’s personality when she was young
Contrasts between J. Winterson and her mother
CHAPTER My Advice To Anybody Is: Get Born
TITLE: the novelist underlines the importance regarding to the first step of the life throught the literature an instrument for everybody
Description of Manchester throught J. Winterson’s point of view ( personal emotional feelings )
J. Winterson cenception of the life interminable search of the happiness
Writer’s infancy

6. CHAPTER 3 In The Beginning Was The Word
TITLE: it remainds somebody of the beginning of the Bible and underlines the importance of the word’s use
Exhibition of the sensitive memories belonged to a child
The reading of the Bible the language is the central point of the contest and it’s necessary to communicate ( bases of J. Winterson’s education )
Hierarchical relation between the members of her family
CHAPTER The Trouble With A Book…
TITLE: it remainds to the theme certain the reading and the function of the books
The different points of view between the writer and her adoptive mother regardin to the books
Books represent the basic instruments of Jeanette’s career as writer
CHAPTER At Home
TITLE: it underlines the familiarity of the place
Description of writer’s home and her life with her adoptive parents
Jeanette’s fictionally world a world based on the passion certain the reading of the books

7. CHAPTER Church
TITLE: it remainds to the religious conceptions of Mrs. Winterson
Church as a crucial setting of J. Winterson
Exorcism brings the novelist to reflect certain the contradictions between love and religion
CHAPTER Accrington
TITLE: it refers to the city where Jeanette W. Lived
Description of the city: shop and inhabitants
Jeanette remembers some episodes bounded to Accrington
CHAPTER The Apocalypse
TITLE: it reference to Mrs. Winterson’s religion, the idea of life and the idea of its anthitesis, the death. The title also remainds of the writer’s discovery of omosexuality
Reflections about sex the birth of Jeanette’s relationship with Janey
Mrs. Winterson’s disapproval about her doughter’s omosexuality

8. CHAPTER 9 English Literature A-Z
TITLE: it recalles the importance of the literature
Explanation regarding to the novelist’s conception of the literature
Jeanette tells about the maternal love ( refering to her mother )
CHAPTER This Is The Road
TITLE: quotation from the previous chapter
Description of the woman’s role in the society
Admission to Oxford
Jeanette’s reflections certain the homosexuality wasn’t accepted during that time
CHAPTER Art and Lies
TITLE: parallelism between art and lies
J. Winterson tells about her life’s time dedicated to the university
The novelist clinches her opinions certain to the literature and art moreover she shows her mother’s point of view

9. INTERMISSION
Reflections about life and art, Jeanette predilects feelings, immagination and emotions
CHAPTER The Night Sea Voyage
TITLE: it remainds to a dark atmosphere
“ Night” calls to mind silence and darkness
“Sea Voyage” calls to mind the life’s difficulties ( refers to her life )
CHAPTER This Appointment Takes Place In The Past
TITLE: meeting between J. Winterson and her biological mother. The word “past” probably refers to the moment in which Ann gave Jeanette for adoption
Flashback Jeanette remembers old episodes regarding to her parents and Christmas
Jeanette tries to get some informations about her biological mother
CHAPTER Strange Meeting
TITLE: it reminds to the meeting between Jeanette W. And her mother and her feelings during this moment
Quotation from her book ( “Stone Gods” ) in which she tells about her meeting with her biological mother

10. CHAPTER The Wound
TITLE: it call to mind the pains that the writer suffered in her life ( caused by Ann and Mrs. Winterson )
Jeanette reflects on her childhood and her adulthood
She revives her feelings throught every memory
CODA
In these pages Jeanette tells how the book was born and the following meeting with her mother Ann. Moreover she leaves space to shows her thoughts regarding to maternity, love, past and future.