His choice to deprive us of this knowledge at this most critical time renders us powerless to understand the situation-we have all the facts, but are given no direction on how to interpret them. ... When the shop bell startles Hepzibah, our perspective is figuratively and literally limited to her stance behind the counter, where we watch with sympathetic horror as "the door [is] thrust open, although no human form [is] perceptible on the other side of the half-window" (49). ...

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