![]() ![]() What is the truth? And why has the narrator been complicit in the concealment?Ītwood uses journalism artfully to let us know in advance where some of the narrative strands will be taken. We can already sense, in the incongruity of the narrative opening and the article, that some power has turned attention away from the truth of Laura's terrible act. ![]() ![]() The novel is much concerned with the power of Iris's husband to conceal things. The use of the newspaper article is neat because it is not merely informative. Instead, there is "the police view that a tyre caught in an exposed streetcar track was a contributing factor". More intriguingly, it tells us that she has given evidence at the inquest that her sister "suffered from severe headaches affecting her vision". Iris, we discover, is married to Richard Griffen, a "prominent manufacturer". This tells us some facts that it would be artificial for the narrator to tell us herself. Next we get a report from the Toronto Star on the inquest. ![]()
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