![]() ![]() ![]() Hamilton, my English teacher, this is known as a "convention." After writing convention on the blackboard, she gave us a lecture explaining that conventions are things we accept when they happen in books and movies even though they never happen in 4 real life. Only, before you can sayBring on the leeches!the guilt-ridden rake who abandoned our heroine is strewing rose petals on her grave and begging God to Please, take me, too because his ex is dead, dead,dead. A girl gets dumped, and she's so grief-stricken she suffers a "brain fever," or goes wandering out on the moors, and the next thing you know, the whole town is hovering by her bedside while a servant gallops on a desperate midnight ride to fetch the doctor. ![]() ONE *** I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART In nineteenth-century novels, characters die of heartbreak. ![]()
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