Blow Up Analysis.


Point of view: The story is mostly narrated in first person, but there are some parts where the principal character talks to himself, so the story changes to third person.

Setting: A park in Paris and in Michael's apartment during the mid 20th century.

Characters: Michael, the main character, but there are also secondary characters, like the blonde and man.

Plot:  The story starts halfway through it, with the main character Michael starting to describe the scene he had just witnessed.
He introduces himself as a photographer and a good looking man . He finds a woman seducing a boy at the park and is intrigued by it and eventually takes a photo of it. He then reveals the photo and it turns out to be a homosexual seduction, this fact drives Michael crazy and traumatised by the photo.

Symbols: Clouds that were part of his hallucinations because he related when he saw them at the park

Themes:  Acceptance of Reality, Michel completely delisted the reality of the photo from his mind, and blocked them by changing them to nature onto the blow-up.