1. Suspense in The House of the Seven Gables
This devolution into paratactic style manifests itself most maddeningly in Hepzibah's discovery of Judge Jaffrey's demise. ... A major discovery is reduced to a single sentence-four simply constructed clauses, containing naught but a subject-predicate replication of the most essential action. ... 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. ... Knowledge of the world is directly tied to the extent of our awareness of the world, which, a...
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