Snow s handling of matters and relationships can be viewed very differently from person to person. His style of skirting the details of the topics in order to focus on the interactions caused by those topics is either completely accepted or rejected. If the reader can only focus on what is happening on a broad scale, there will be much disappointment. This is because Snow doesn t feel that the topics are important and therefore does not give all the information, and sometimes purposely withholding it, so that the focus remains on the interactions. If it is understood that the purpose the novels hold is to examine the interactions and relationship of the people and groups involved, these novels serve their purpose perfectly.
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