The Exposition
Verfasst von kristinhd am März 31, 2008
What can be said about the exposition?
Well, I think all in all on this few pages is presented the whole story. We get to know all important information about the characters of the two plots, one playing in the 1970s, the year when the female narrator goes to India to retrace the mystery around Olivia, the main character of 1923. She eloped with an Indian Prince although she was married with Douglas, the future husband of the narrators grand mother Tessie, whose sister lives in India, too.
As we get to know, only as Douglas dies, thanks the arrival of Harry, an Englishman and old friend of the Nawab, Beth and Tessie talk again about Olivia and get in possess of the letters she wrote to her sister Marcia during the time 1923. Like that, the narrator
begins to feel interested in it, and finally makes the log trip to Bombay and Satipur,
making her own experiences.
By letting us know somehow the whole story the author evokes a feeling of curiosity
because now we can ask ourselves the question how this all happened and why Olivia
eloped with the Nawab, although she was married.
