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A 6 page paper discussing the reality of the settings and details in these three novels. The paper points out that verisimilitude is very important in fiction, because only when the reader is grounded in reality can he suspend disbelief sufficiently to be drawn into the story. Bibliography lists one source.
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in ancient Greece must reflect, as faithfully as possible, what it was like to live in that time and place. Verisimilitude is very important in fiction, because only when the
reader is grounded in reality can he suspend disbelief sufficiently to be drawn into the story. This paper will look at three works of fiction -- John Grishams The Partner,
Edith Whartons Ethan Frome, and David Gutersons Snow Falling onto Cedars and assesses the verisimilitude of each. John Grisham is a writer of popular suspense fiction, very often concerning lawyers
and the law. This is quite natural, since Grisham has a legal background himself. His verisimilitude concerning the legal profession is quite natural, then, as his strong storytelling skills draw
us into a realm he himself knows well. But he is equally at home describing the seamier sides of diverse locales. The Partner, for example, opens with the kidnapping of
Grishams protagonist, Patrick Lanigan, from a South American street. Grisham describes this scene as convincingly as he does the inside of a courtroom. Much of Grishams expertise here, one hopes,
comes not from direct experience but from research and interviews, but either way it settles us into the novel because we believe it; we feel we can trust the author
because he sounds like a man who knows what hes talking about. That initial trust having been established, we now feel that we can go along with the rest of
his story as well. The object is to intrude on the readers total absorption in the story as little as possible; lapses in verisimilitude frequently do this because the reader
catches himself saying, for example, "Theres no beach in Vineland, New Jersey!" -- which not only interrupts the readers attention to the work, but also undercuts his trust in the
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