![]() ![]() ![]() The book is full of direct and clear explanations of the mechanics of plotting and how best to use chance as a device. Motoring through the pages, I accepted the coincidence as fine and natural the story’s details are presented in such a reasonable, matter-of-fact way, and the reader zips along, happily snapped into a mantrap of narration. ![]() I want to write that it stretches credulity and yet I have to admit that it didn’t stretch mine at all. And that he should pay for that sociopath to go all the way to Italy from New York and live with his son. What astonishing ill fortune that Greenleaf Snr should select a sociopath – who barely knows his son – as the person to help him. It’s quite some chance that the father of Dickie Greenleaf selects Tom Ripley, “a potential murderer”, to bring his son home.Īs soon as I read that I could see that it was all too true. Highsmith points out in the book that The Talented Mr Ripley begins with an “almost but not quite incredible” coincidence. ![]()
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