The Wild Swans
Mar. 7th, 2007 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dichroicThe biggest and most obvious questions about The Wild Swans can be posted without spoilers, and for those reading the book for the first time, I think they're good to think about as you're reading.
TWS has a very unusual structure, with two parallel plots going on. Some of the relationships between the two plots are very obvious, some much less so. What relationships do you see? Where do the plots diverge, and why? What does it add to the experience of the book to have the two plots instead of just one and instead of a more intertwined story?
(My own guess is that Peg took a lot of care with the structure of this book, and that not only every convergence but every divergence between the plots is deliberate.)
TWS has a very unusual structure, with two parallel plots going on. Some of the relationships between the two plots are very obvious, some much less so. What relationships do you see? Where do the plots diverge, and why? What does it add to the experience of the book to have the two plots instead of just one and instead of a more intertwined story?
(My own guess is that Peg took a lot of care with the structure of this book, and that not only every convergence but every divergence between the plots is deliberate.)
