The Analysis of the Tin FluteThe Analysis of the Tin Flute is a novel by Gabrielle Roy and was written in Quebec during the Second World War in 1945. This novel is about a girl named Florentine and how she becomes a mature young woman realizing that a person's imprisonment has not told her how that person really feels and thinks; This novel also shows the effect of poverty and how it affects people and their families. The narrator speaks from an omniscient point of view, but it is mostly from Florentine's point of view. Florentine is a 19 year old girl who works at a fast food restaurant called Five and Ten; he works very hard and long hours to help support his family. While he was at the restaurant he saw many different types of people but there is one person with a different captivity from everyone else, “He seemed elegant […] Even much superior to the young people he met in the neighborhood bars” (Roy 6) . The impression that the man, named Jean Levesque, gives makes Florentine very attracted to him. Judging by his impression, Fiorentino seems like a polite, well-groomed and thoughtful man. The significant thing is that he looks nothing like what he looks like to Florentine. Jean is a selfish man who takes social status and class seriously, he only thinks about joining a higher class. The irony of Florentine's thoughts that she will be together with Jean is significant to the theme of imprisonment because it shows how Florentine's thoughts, about who Jean is, are different from who Jean really is. When Jean and Florentine met for the first time they were attracted to each other, without either of them saying anything. Now Jan has entered the restaurant and this makes him nervous because he doesn't know whether to talk to her or not. As Jean sits... middle of paper... in the house, he insults her by comparing her to poverty and then describing poverty as "that relentless smell of poor clothes, the poverty you could recognize with your own eyes." closed” (208). Jean, who grew up in an orphanage and was later adopted by a woman, talks about poverty as something that shouldn't go out, but then connects poverty with the life of the Lacasse family. Jean thinks that Lacasse's poverty is so bad that anyone can see it and know how poor he is. This novel shows the importance of not using a person's impression to judge who they are because an imprisoned person can most of the time be false. Furthermore, the novel also shows the symbol of poverty and what it represents to the Lacasses. The Lacasses are living a hard and difficult life due to their poverty and Florentine has learned the hard way that she should not trust someone who bases her imprisonment..