The Caine Mutiny

How does the author use foreshadowing in The Caine Mutiny?

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Tom Keefer, the fledgling novelist, always recites poetry when drunk, most of it foreshadowing present or future conditions. In Chapter Eight, he launches into parts of Milton's Paradise Lost, describing man's fall from God's grace at the hands of Satan as a snake and vivid visions of hell.

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The Caine Mutiny