Style, March 22nd, 1997
Author Harold Frederic's 'The Damnation of Theron Ware' is particularly interesting because of its ability to attract reader participation in its investigations of authority figures and the results of a culture's lack of clearly delineated, valid sources of authority. How Frederic manipulates the text to ensure the participation of readers in the novel's theme through deliberately confusing use of changing points of view in 'Theron Ware's' first chapter is discussed. Recent studies of The Damnation have focused on the novel's interrogations into the issue of authority and posited the reader's...
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