There is one main difference between a summary and analysis which is an analysis digs deeper into the meaning the of something. A summary tells the basics of a story much like a newspaper it covers the who, what, when, where, why, and how. An analysis would look more into those topics in order to draw a conclusion.
An extensive summary would still look deeper into the the who, what, when, where, why, and how. For example a summary might look at the when in terms of time period or time of day and the what as the topic being covered and issues being addressed by the writing. It would not attempt, like an analysis, to look into what influenced the writing or the why the characters in certain ways.
An analysis could also look at an patterns in a story or the consequences of events in a story. The goal of an analysis is one of finding meaning in certain contexts such as the gains and losses, causes and their effects, or the roles of objects and situations.
One thing that is important to remember is that it seems impossible to have an analysis without first starting at the summary. When analyzing a story first the story needs to be summarized in order to look at what can be analyzed and how. For example, if someone were to look at the Crucible hey could summarize the panic of the panic of the characters and analyze it from the writers perspective. He was writing in the 1950's during the panic of Communism. This is looking deeper into the summary in terms of when (time period) and why (the cause). It is using the summary in order to see the deeper meaning in that summary.
One book that seems to be always up for an analysis is A Clockwork Orange. It seems that the book has been analyzed in so many different ways. Here is one website with a very quick and broken down analysis of the very popular and debatable book http://www.shmoop.com/clockwork-orange/literary-devices.html
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