When you read fiction, you need to add a pinch of 'fairy dust' to the original ingredients! Samuel Coleridge identified this as "the momentary willful suspension of disbelief." The reader must choose to get involved and taken up in the story line; he puts hard logic and reason temporarily aside.
Perhaps the ironic twist at the end of "The Gift of the Magi" isn't all that likely, but that is altogether its charm. If the reader had anticipated it, if he had not been caught off-guard so to speak, the tale wouldn't have been half so interesting. As the best and worst of life's surprises are the most memoriable, the message of the Magi is best transported by this element of surprise. Little does it matter if the events are probable; if the characters are believable - loathesome or endearing, if they move you emotionally, if the essential message is caught, then the story is a success.
When you read fiction, you need to add a pinch of 'fairy dust' to the original ingredients! Samuel Coleridge identified this as "the momentary willful suspension of disbelief." The reader must choose to get involved and taken up in the story line; he puts hard logic and reason temporarily aside.Perhaps the ironic twist at the end of "The Gift of the Magi" isn't all that likely, but that is altogether its charm. If the reader had anticipated it, if he had not been caught off-guard so to speak, the tale wouldn't have been half so interesting. As the best and worst of life's surprises are the most memoriable, the message of the Magi is best transported by this element of surprise. Little does it matter if the events are probable; if the characters are believable - loathesome or endearing, if they move you emotionally, if the essential message is caught, then the story is a success.
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