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Reading the Unwritten

By On February 16, 2012

One way of appreciating the style of a writer is to consider what they have not written.   Just as we may judge a scene for its content, we may also judge a scene for what has been omitted and the power that comes from the absence of information.  For this I have to think of chapter five of The Great Gatsby in which the narrator Nick Carraway hosts the first meeting in five years between Daisy and Jay Gatsby.

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