Although Scottie's determination to protect Madeleine, which stems from a deep-seated sense of insecurity, contributes hugely to the spiraling circularity of love and loss in the plot-line, Scottie's attraction to the world of romantic illusion is what culminates in the film's tragic ending. ... It is his inclination for romantic delusion that leads him to fall prey to Judy's trickery, readily rejecting real love in favor of the illusive, dreamlike love he finds with Madeleine. As the two converse for the first time in Scottie's apartment, Hitchcock imbues a dreamlike ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

{Guterson's novel interweaves realistic interpretations with romantic accents to fuse these subplots, together with a role-playing setting, into one watertight mystery romance.} ... The presence of setting, in its most transparent realistic form, swabs the otherwise blasé backgrounds and characters with hints or sponge-loads of romantic tinges, depending upon their corresponding importance in Snow Falling On Cedars. ... Satiated with underlying plots and morally exigent themes, Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars interweaves realistic interpretations with romanti...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate