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This 3 page paper explores two short works, “The Real Thing” by Henry James and “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett to determine what is meant by the term “realism.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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reader and the events he/she is describing, so that they are already unreal. This paper considers The Real Thing by Henry James and The White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
and how the two stories present versions of reality. Discussion Henry James is usually praised for being a writer of great "sensitivity" or castigated for being fussy and obtuse. But
his short novella The Real Thing is neither: its a closely observed examination of the way in which an artist works, and how the surface, rather than the substance, can
become the most important thing about a project. In the story, an artist is surprised when an apparently upper class couple comes to his studio, looking for work as models.
He sees that they have experience, because they are good-looking; they tell him that they have been photographed a great deal. He takes them on to pose for a novel
hes illustrating, but finds that they-the woman in particular-are all wrong. Its not that she cant hold the pose, but that shes worked for so long in front of a
camera that she can only be herself, because thats all thats ever been asked of her: "She was always a lady certainly, and into the bargain was always the same
lady. She was the real thing, but always the same thing" (James). She cannot play other parts, and so eventually the artist breaks with the couple, since the drawings he
does of them are not working: "They had bowed their heads in bewilderment to the perverse and cruel law in virtue of which the real thing could be so my
less precious than the unreal" (James). The characters that are most striking here are the couple, because despite their frantic attempts to find work and their fear of poverty, they
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