高级英语第一册Blackmail的赏析(3)

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a successful film with dramatic visual effects.

About the background.

The story happened in a hotel named St. Gregory in New Orleans, Louisiana which is in the south of US.The text is only a part of the nove,Hotel.We can see three main characters in this text. Ogilvie: chief house officer.the Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United States.the Duchess of Croydon: wife of the Duke.

This kind of novels are called thrillers. Generally defining, a thriller is a work of fiction or drama designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure or suspense. Others can be called cop-criminal novels, detective novels. The main purpose is for entertainment, amusement. Very often this kind of novels contain a lot of action, usu. suspension, not very much deep thought, without moral intention, not considered classic.

The basic technique is to make the whole story of crime into sth. like a jigsaw puzzle. You can not see the outcome until the final part is put in.

About the plot.

Gregory was now at the brink of bankruptcy, but Peter McDermott is trying every means he could to save it.Several events happened during the week with the present text as part of it.The Duke of