Metaphors and similes are used to create a more vivid picture, such as in The Company of Wolves, ‘his nipples are ripe and dark as poison fruit’, which is also a sexual imagery.
Past tense is chiefly used; present, present participles are used for motions, in dialogue, and for effects to create the immediateness and live. At the beginning of The Bloody Chamber, ‘burning cheek’, ‘the pounding of my heart’, ‘thrusting the train’ are used to create the vividness for sexual imageries.
Ambiguity, depending on the reader’s interpretation, provides flexible imaginations which makes the story more fascinating. In The Werewolf, the grandmother is found as a wolf as the wolf’s paw becomes a freckled hand due to old age; and as a witch as she got the witch’s nipple, which her feminine is sucked up already.
Anthropomorphism is also a stylistic feature of Angela Carter, humanized the animals but kept the wildness of animals, especially, the lust of wolf and the savage of beast Male characters are always beast, wolf symbolized masculinity, devastating power, lust of a man, giving an image of an animal with animal features, outlook.
In The Company of Wolves, the image of wolf is referred to ‘he’, ‘the hat with the feather’, ‘his matted hair’ with ‘lice’ moving on it shows the animal feature; ‘his skin is the color and texture of vellum’ shows the brutality , where his huge ’genital’ symbolize huge desire of sex.
Fragments are used widely in her stories for effects, in The Snow Child, it starts with ‘Midwinter—invincible, immaculate.‘, to be more explicit.
Parallel structure is found in The Company of Wolves, ‘she is an unbroken egg; she is a seal vessel……’, it is used to emphasize the spotlessness of a virgin, the image of purity.
Virgin is always used for the innocent female characters to emphasize the purity image of a virgin —‘she is an unbroken egg; she is a sealed vessel’, giving a spotless image of a virgin, but is being destroyed by man during the sexual intercourse and become more ferocious as a man, an animal that she finally chopped off wolf’s hand in The Werewolf, or die as in The Snow Child..
At last, women overpower the men using sexuality—feminism; females finally ‘win’, in The Company of Wolves, the wolf finally dies instead of the weak girl.
Setting of the story is also deftly created at the beginning of the story to give the reader a general idea, image of the story and is always negative; before the climax to build up tension; and in the change of scene to advance the play.
