The Beast In The Jungle: The Beast Of James
Beginning of paper
"In the case of Henry James there should not be much dispute about the
exactness and completeness of the representation; no man ever strove more
studiously or on the whole more successfully to reproduce the shape and
color and movement of his æsthetic experience." These are the remarks
of Stuart ....
Middle of paper
.... James has aesthetically hidden the
reality of Marcher's destiny by treating it as a symbolic crouching beast
waiting to spring. The reader will ask why James has done this? Wouldn't it
be more effective to speak plainly of Marcher's and Bartram's relationship?
The author could tell us exactly why John Marcher does not marry May
Bartram. The narrator tells us that Marcher's situation "was not a
condition he could invite a woman to share" and "that a man of feeling
didn't cause himself to be ....
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