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Instead of showing, sometimes the author tells what the situation is. Thackeray does not say Amelia is jealous, he shows the reader what she does: "Amelia was making a fool of herself in an absurd hysterical manner, and retired to her own room to whimper in private." The idea amuses George, who bursts out laughing, whereat Rawdon shouts at them to ask what the joke is. Becky says she will find out when Briggs goes to bathe she will dive in under Briggs' awning and "insist on a reconciliation". George and Becky are talking about how Becky can get next to Briggs, Miss Crawley's maid, and thereby see Miss Crawley and regain her favor for Rawdon. Usually Thackeray just describes what happens. "Show me his hair."īecky almost laughed at her simplicity. "Was he fair or dark?" went on that absurd little Emmy. Bless his sweet face, I have never seen it again." He was eleven when they took him away from me. I am very much changed: half wild some times. "Grief has made me forget so many things, dearest Amelia. "I know, I know," Becky cried out, who had in fact quite forgotten all about little Rawdon's age. "Why, he was born the same year with George who is - " "My agonies," Becky continued, "were terrible (I hope she won't sit down on the bottle) when they took him away from me I thought I should die but I fortunately had a brain fever, during which my doctor gave me up, and - and I recovered, and - and - here I am, poor and friendless." Becky has hidden her brandy bottle in the bed, and is putting forth every effort to engage Amelia's sympathy by way of little Rawdon: Amelia visits Becky to find out if she can help her. Here is an example of dramatic presentation. a persecutor is bound to show that the fallen man is a villain - otherwise he, the persecutor, is a wretch himself.

When one man has been under very remarkable obligations to another, with whom he subsequently quarrels, a common sense of decency, as it were, makes of the former a much severer enemy than a mere stranger would be. Thackeray comments on the psychology of old Osborne's attitude: For example, when the Sedleys lose their money, the chief critic and enemy is old Osborne, whom Sedley has started in business.

If there is any doubt as to how the reader should judge an individual, the author steps in and makes appropriate comment. The story is presented by summarized narrative, bits of drama, interpolated essays, without much recourse to the minds of the characters.