1. Suspense in The House of the Seven Gables
... for another fifty or so pages, this clue sets our suspicions on the right track; nevertheless, because of our previous experience with red herrings, we are unsure whether or not to trust this nugget of potential evidence. Just as Hepzibah could not know the nature of her customer until he entered and we could not discern the reliability of Hawthorne's clue until our suspicions were directly confirmed, so certainty ... trigger words to cause the reader to at least suspect that Judge Jaffrey is dead; yet the narrator skates around directly stating this point for several chapters, then cast...
- Word Count: 1547
- Approx Pages: 6
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate