ewer for The Middle, and has usually reviewed the works of minor poets, "I had done a few thing and earned a few pence...but never a word in The Middle, where my dealings were mainly with the ladies and the minor poets"(James, Pg. 284). However, the narrator finally gets the chance to write a real review when his friend George Corvick had asked him to do a favor by writing a review on Hugh Vereker's newest novel. Once again, we are limited to information about the narrator, but nothing of his name.
Unlike the information we are given about the artist, we are told in great detail, about the Monarchs. From the moment the artist laid his eyes upon the Monarchs, the artist sees something different about them, something that sets them apart from the other models and even himself, "From their type, the Monarchs'"(James, Pg. 210). The artist observed the difference in the way the Monarchs stood tall, talked very intelligently, and dressed particularly wealthy, "The gentleman, a man of fifty, very high and very straight, with a moustache slightly grizzled"(James, Pg.204), "Her husband has the word that described her: 'smart'"(James, Pg. 207), and "There was something about them that represented credit – their clothes, their manners, their type"(James, Pg. 209). To the contrary, Miss Churm was everything opposite the
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