A flashback
defines the part of story where the narrative is interrupted to recount something that happened
prior to the start of the story. In "," this occurs in the second paragraph, where the
narrator jumps back to his memories of first moving into his house, once owned by a priest, and
what he found there. He also offers some wry information about the priest himself that is not
included in the quote below:
Air, musty from having been
long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with
old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were
curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant, and The Memoirs of Vidocq.
I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. . . .
hints at what is to come next in a story. Although the narrator is wrapped up in
dreams of Araby, he...
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