This is the 4th book in The A* Way series of critical guides. The objective of these detailed notes is to take students on an analytical journey through a text using a method of close reading and detailed analysis. This particular guide focuses on Janet Frame's short story, 'The Bath', and is structured in such a way that it teaches, explores and explains the story's main concerns and formal and structural elements in detail. All advanced students of literature should find these detailed notes helpful, although those who are aiming for excellent results in their final exams will find much in them to help them raise the level of their engagement with the story to new heights. 'The Bath' is analysed in terms of both its form and its content and particular attention is given to: -Narration and point of view -Modes of presenting thought -Character and Characterisation -Form and Structure -Style and Language -Themes Frame's 'The Bath' is a superb short story; finely crafted and thought provoking.