paritoshuttam
Re: Foreshadowing
That was a wonderful illustration, Uncle Jim. I could sense what was coming from Fortunato's saying a cold would not kill him. But the best was the talk about the freemasons, though I could get its significance only on the second reading, helped along by your pointers.
Is all foreshadowing that subtle? I can understand a discerning reader remembering such details in the duration of a short story, but if you consider a novel, such details in foreshadowing will spread across chapters. Does the average reader (as opposed to a critic) really recalls such details while reading a novel? Unless of course the foreshadowing is done too often (in which case it is hardly a shadow!)...
- Paritosh.
That was a wonderful illustration, Uncle Jim. I could sense what was coming from Fortunato's saying a cold would not kill him. But the best was the talk about the freemasons, though I could get its significance only on the second reading, helped along by your pointers.
Is all foreshadowing that subtle? I can understand a discerning reader remembering such details in the duration of a short story, but if you consider a novel, such details in foreshadowing will spread across chapters. Does the average reader (as opposed to a critic) really recalls such details while reading a novel? Unless of course the foreshadowing is done too often (in which case it is hardly a shadow!)...
- Paritosh.