Analyse Untold lie Winesburg Ohio

« the author as it is an efficient way to maintain the reader's interest and to create even a stronger climactic moment.                       In the passage under study there is another clearly visible technique which helps creating more intense climax, an explanation of consciousness, epiphany.

And we see one of the primarily characteristic of it, the suddenness of its apparition.

In fact," Of a sudden" Ray's process of realization started after he rediscovers the beauty of Winesburg and parallels it with his lost youth.

The reader can only see sentences rapidly following each other, everything that happens after forgetting about being old is sudden.

In order to bring the epiphany to the text, Anderson also uses stream of consciousness (memories, short sentences, thoughts) in order to build an interior monologue.? Why should I pay? Why should Hal pay? Why should anyone pay? I don't want Hal to become old and worn out.

I'll tell him.

I won't let it go on.

I'll catch Hal before he gets to town and I'll tell him.? Ray is talking to himself and asking nearly endless questions in this interior monologue.

And interior monologues are characteristic of an epiphanic moment in the sense that the realization of the truth is a consequence of an inner thinking process.

Besides, Anderson mindfully pushes the reader to connect the speed of thinking with the speed of running on this epiphanic moment.

To help with this, author voluntarily switches between negative memories "promise ","pay" and positive "west", "sea", etc.

to build on Ray's thoughts and plays with the pace.

The rhythm is cut as Ray falls down but stands up and keeps up on running. We can see an increasing intensity towards the final point of the realization as Ray is running "harder and harder", but the pace slows down again in the description of Ray's memories of the west.

Indeed, the reader unconsciously pictures the memories in a slow motion as it is emphasized by images of slow objects such as "sea", "sailor" that contrast with the increasing running movement.

In the same spirit, the "hands clutching" on him have the same slowing effect.

Anderson builds the suspense of the situation through variation of speed between quick and slow moments and opens the way for Ray to finalize the highest point of his epiphany: beyond refusing his marital responsibilities, he refuses to take responsibility of his children.   The building of the climax by Anderson in this passage is the vessel to a self-dramatization, hiding a deeper. »