Sunday, 11 March 2018

SYMMETRY OF A STORY

Tom Jones … has 198 Chapters, divided into eighteen Books, the first six of which are set in the
country, the second six on the road, and the final six in London … Exactly in the middle of the novel
most of the major characters pass through the same inn, but without meeting in combinations which
would bring the story to a premature conclusion … Symmetry,’ says author and critic David Lodge,
‘matters more to writers of fiction than readers consciously perceive.’

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