Structure of the First Two Chapters of McEwan's Enduring Love
My primary thoughts concerning Enduring love and specifically its
structure were not complimentary. It seemed to me that McEwan had
destroyed any imaginative or creative matter that was present with his
overly analytical and sometimes sporadic thought processes. However,
after due consideration I believe that quite the opposite is true. In
writing Joe's cogitations he creates a very real atmosphere and also
provides a stable base from which to consider human nature, and
manipulate the reader, allowing him to build an ambience of tension as
he humanises the narrative.
The time period; each individual chapter follows chronologically from
its previous, and within the chapter the events are logical and follow
a chronology to a certain degree. What complicates the chapters are
the digressions. Although each piece of narrative used to develop the
story as an account of the happenings, follow on from each other, they
are interrupted by digressions and threads of unnecessary thought for
the simple description of occurrences to progress. Digression,
philosophising and simple reflecting are common in most novels, they
are the corner stone of the novel in most cases. Enduring love is
different in two aspects. Firstly it overly digresses and secondly its
digressions are sporadic and rather erratic. With these digressions
McEwan is able to manipulate the reader. This is the key to tension.
'The beginning is simple to mark. We were in sunlight...'
To explicate my meaning we read the first paragraph of the novel and
are quite beautifully caught in the flow of language. Everything ...
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...and levels of tension at will. Diminishing the
tension is as difficult as building it up, this is a sure sign of
McEwan's elegant writing, proving the high level of tension already
built up.
So with these first two chapters, we can clearly see that, the
structure of language, the time period, the emotional manipulation,
and the structure of Joe's 'mind flow' McEwan uses influences the
reader, developing the tension from the first page. A tension so
vividly present in the event that it makes McEwan's job painless.
However, with his subtle pauses and reflections, diminishing the
tension frustrating the reader, he maintains this tension throughout;
from 'the sunlight...to the radiating power of Jed Parry's love and
pity'. We keenly await the conclusion of the events, and the
denouement of Joe and Jed's relationship.
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