Just some suggestions for how to analyze rather than summarize plot:
Discuss the relevance of the subtitle of the novel.
Discuss chapter titles and how they relate to the novel as a whole (Gestalt).
Discuss how the “I” of the text seems more singular in the first few pages of the novel. When does the spilt between Tod T. Friendly and the doppelganger occur?
Describe the author’s use of ominous foreshadowing in Chapter One…where or how does the narrator seem to feel this journey will end? Discuss foreshadowing throughout the rest of the novel. How does foreshadowing seem ironic within the context of this particular novel?
Some have described the doppleganger as a parasitic creature. Is he? Why or why not? Explain by references to specific passages.
In chapter one, the author uses the simile “like a storm of human souls.” Keep this phrase in mind and discuss how it relates to the rest of the novel.
Discuss “mirrors” as they appear in Chapter One.
Create an on-going list of powerful, evocative, provocative, and/or meaningfully compelling images…how about…sentences 4-7 on page 10. If you ever need to remind yourself of what imagery is—this is it!
The narrative voice shows many sides to his personality—most of which are easy to see since his life is ironically going somewhat forward whereas Tod’s is going backwards.
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