Practice question · True or false
Werther gives us both sides of the correspondence, so the reader can check Werther’s account against his correspondents’.
Hints
- Consider what makes the novel claustrophobic.
- The letters run in one direction only.
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False
Why
False. We get Werther’s letters and almost nothing coming back, which seals us inside a consciousness we can see is distorting without being given any external correction. The one-sidedness is the technique, and it is why the book affected readers so powerfully.
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