Can Such Things Be? · Character
Henry Saylor
A sardonic little man with a bitten finger and a nine-year secret, who tells a stranger the story of a grave he gouged himself and a man he is still afraid to meet.
supporting
Also known as Saylor
First appearance: a tough tussle
As a supporting figure in Can Such Things Be?, Henry Saylor is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
A reporter for the Cincinnati Commercial who is assigned to spend the night in the haunted Roscoe house.
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Henry Saylor, called Gopher, narrates the deaths of Whisky and Jo with a consummate actor's control, drawing sympathy for his dramatis personae and then turning it, with a grin, upon himself. He kept a cussed secret for…
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- Mysterious Tragedies
- Drunkard's Supernatural
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This passage marks the dramatic climax because it presents the emotional and psychological peak of the narrato…
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