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Which parts of this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" helps build anticipation in the story?

[A) Dexter put on his bathing-suit and swam out to the farthest raft, where he stretched dripping on the wet canvas of the springboard.]

There was a fish jumping and a star shining and the lights around the lake were gleaming. Over on a dark peninsula a piano was playing the songs of last summer and of summers before that—songs from "Chin-Chin" and "The Count of Luxemburg" and "The Chocolate Soldier"—and

[B) because the sound of a piano over a stretch of water had always seemed beautiful to Dexter he lay perfectly quiet and listened.]

[C) The tune the piano was playing at that moment had been gay and new five years before when Dexter was a sophomore at college.]

[D) They had played it at a prom once when he could not afford the luxury of proms, and he had stood outside the gymnasium and listened.] The sound of the tune precipitated in him a sort of ecstasy and it was with that ecstasy he viewed what happened to him now.

[E) It was a mood of intense appreciation, a sense that, for once, he was magnificently attune to life and that everything about him was radiating a brightness and a glamour he might never know again.]

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michell96

The correct answers are B) because the sound of a piano over a stretch of water had always seemed beautiful to Dexter he lay perfectly quiet and listened and E) It was a mood of intense appreciation, a sense that, for once, he was magnificently attune to life and that everything about him was radiating a brightness and a glamour he might never know again.

Explanation:

In literature anticipation is considered as a literary device implies the narrator or writer provides the audience clues about what is going to happen next in a story, without narrating the events that lead to that point. In the case of the short story "Winter Dreams" written by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, anticipation occurs as the main character called Dexter "lay perfectly quiet and listened", this makes the reader increase its interest as the atmosphere that is quiet suggest the reader something else is going to happen. On the other hand, the narrator also introduces anticipation by mentioning "a brightness and a glamour he might never know again", because this shows the life of Dexter is going to change abruptly and he will be unable to be in the way he is while listening to the piano, although the reader does not know why this is going to happen. Thus, options B and E build anticipation because they suggest something else will happen with Dexter and his life is going to change, even though the reason why it will change is not explained immediately, this means the narrator provides clues on how the story will evolve but does not tell the events that will lead to that point which is what anticipation is about.

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The parts of the excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" that helps build anticipation in the story are;

  • because the sound of a piano over a stretch of water had always seemed beautiful to Dexter he lay perfectly quiet and listened
  •  It was a mood of intense appreciation, a sense that, for once, he was magnificently attune to life and that everything about him was radiating a brightness and a glamour he might never know again.

What is Anticipation in a story?

Anticipation  in a story can be regarded as the emotion which encompass the  pleasure or anxiety of the reader in awaiting an expected event.

In the excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams", we can see in the statement " magnificently attune to life and that everything about him was radiating a brightness" about the anticipation.

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