OR Ask yourself 3 substantive questions about Cat's Cradle , two of which must be literary ones. Write down your three questions and include them in your text. Answer 2 of your 3 questions. He sets character in situation, and the plot grows out of subject matter and situation. No one ever works in a James novel.
Author tends to disappear from work.
Strong emphasis upon dialogue. Scenes are always social situations. Sometimes, the effect is very over-refined. A novel has no moral purpose. There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident. . . .