Tom: The question is not whether the generalization is accurate but whether it is art.
==== And that question is answered not by examining families but by examining the sentence'srelations to the rest of the book. Incidentally -- is the sentence a generalization about families or, rather, about the reader: i.e. it forces the reader to define his/her relation to the narrator. Compare the first sentence of P&P. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
