1. Bifurcated Tellers in Wuthering Heights
When two or more witnesses give their account of an event, the story never comes out the same. ... The claims of Signora Flora and Signor Ponza baffle the efforts of the gossips in a small Italian town, and with them Pirandello's theatre audience, to determine whether Ponza is deranged and cruelly conceals his wife( according to the tale his mother-in-law tells), or Signora Flora suffers from the delusion that her daughter is still alive, refusing to believe that Ponza has remarried (as Ponza tells the story). ... The two versions of the story are incompatible, yet, as the stage manager d...
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