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Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair.' (William Makepeace Thackeray)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19950101
Author:Bruce, Cicero

William Makepeace Thakeray's 'Vanity Fair' utilizes a technique at its end wherein various related impressions are presented to the reader which causes Thackeray's view to precede the reader's interpretations. Involved in this technique are seventeen clauses and dozens of parallel phrases in one singular sentence which summarizes the novel's main points via different character types.

Percy Lubbock has noted the manner in which Thackeray often foreshadows a crucial narrative development with a "panorama" of related impressions, making us see the situation "with his eyes," before letting us ...

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