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It was something, I guessed, in the primal plan, something like a complex figure in a Persian carpet.
--Henry James, "The Figure in the Carpet"
The search for an enigma catalyzes the revelations of character in "The Figure in the Carpet." Too often, writers learn not from James but from his character Vereker. They learn not the use of a macguffin to expose character flaws but, rather, that fiction might have a pattern. Likewise, revelation and discovery are key to the novel. The forced manifestation of an imposed pattern is merely boring and academic. Patterns can be put to work, however. Suki Kim's pattern of Korean immigrants--her delivery truck ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A safe preserve for sport. (Fiction chronicle).