Is there any difference in the length of the sentences? (Remember that the independent clauses of a compound sentence are very nearly the same as simple sentences.)
Is there any difference in the proportion of verbs and verbals? What parts of speech have almost disappeared?
ROGER MALVIN’S BURIAL.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 145.)
Why is the first paragraph needed?
Why could the incident in the first paragraph on p. 50 not be omitted? Do you find it later?
How many chapters could you divide the story into? What is the basis of division?
Why did not Hawthorne tell the result of the shot at once?
[41] A plot is usually made by introducing more than one cause, by hiding one of the causes, or by holding back an effect. Which in this story?
Is there a change of movement between the beginning and the end of the story? Look at the last two pages carefully. How has the author expressed the intensity of the situation?
Does the story end when it is finished?