Section I: About Metaphors; Chapter One: How We Usually Understand Metaphor; Chapter Two: Metaphor as a Way of Thinking; Chapter Three: Structural Metaphor; Section II: Metaphor as a Tool for Character Analysis; Chapter Four: Character Analysis and the Limitations of Ontological Metaphor; Chapter Five: Using Structural Metaphor for Character Analysis; Section III: Applying the Method; Chapter Six: How this Might have Worked for Angeline in The Zoo Story; Chapter Seven: How this worked for Angeline in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.