We know, we know – the last time you wrote a "grammatically unconventional" English paper you got a C-. Stephen Crane certainly takes liberty with the conventions of the language, going Yoda on us with sentences like these:
"Doubts and he were struggling" (11.15).
"A sputtering of musketry was always to be heard" (16.1).
"It is true that his trousers felt to him that they were no fit for his legs at all" (3.27).
"A house standing placidly in distant fields had to him an ominous look" (3.28).
Weird, right? This takes some getting used to, but it certainly marks the novel with a stylistic individuality.
The writer and her parents were treated with proper hospitality. They were welcomed by doing puja then they were served with fresh and delicious organic food.
she understands that her dreams of marriage and family are dead. ... she regrets that she is an outsider and has not spent more time with her sister and her sister's family.
