There's no deep analysis going on here, and for that reason I can't decide whether it's true to life or gratuitous. The violence-not only at the end but scattered throughout the book-is very casual, the sort we see all the time on television and in the movies. The three stories come together in a violent climax, and it is here that Garland's writing is betrayed by his youth. The story of the middle-class woman is an equally expert evocation I don't doubt for a moment Garland 's description of how a teenaged Filipino provincial feels when she meets a young fisherman on the way to school, or how she feels, years later, in her nicely landscaped home in Manila. The Englishman is absolutely convinced that he is going to die, and the resulting suspense is almost unbearable. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:įashion-jumping back and forth in time, but with bursts of reaUstic dialogue.
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