each time she has an opportunity to explain herself, something happens to prevent her on each occasion that the main character goes somewhere she shouldn't go, she invariably crosses paths with someone who draws the wrong conclusions about her activities there are a set number of characters, some of whom turn up again and again serving new and unlikely plot purposes every time Yes, the more I think about it, the more parallels between this book and a soap opera occur to me: One of my first reactions on finishing this long and melodramatic 18th century saga was relief that such unlikely plots and histrionic characters are no longer in vogue in literature-though we still have plenty of melodrama in the form of soap opera.
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