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Count of Monte Cristo Chap. 40 thru 46
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Some of the stories in the book are rather long, but I love the way that Dumas ties all of the events and lives together. Bertuccio intersects with de Villefort and Caderousse, all spreading out from the Count.
I love the way that the Count describes Danglars. " How can anyone fail at first sight to recognize in him the serpent with its flattened head, the vulture with its bulging skull and the buzzard with its rapacious beak?"
Jeannette wrote: "Some of the stories in the book are rather long, but I love the way that Dumas ties all of the events and lives together. Bertuccio intersects with de Villefort and Caderousse, all spreading out f..."
I read yesterday that Dumas had an assistant who helped him with the plotline. It really is an amazing work of detail, isn't it?
I read yesterday that Dumas had an assistant who helped him with the plotline. It really is an amazing work of detail, isn't it?
There is 15 years worth of story that needs to be revealed to Edmond, as well as that 9 year gap in the Count's story that needs to be recounted to the reader. I think Dumas, and his assistant, did an incredible job of tying things together, without losing the reader's interest. And, I still have half of the book to read.
He did indeed, Shelley.
I am starting this section now. I had forgotten that Morrel's son had shown up to the breakfast party. It will be interesting to see the developments there.
Yes, adding Morrel back in to the mix made the story interesting, and really added to the suspense for me later in the story.
I can't remember who Bertuccio is (have to go look at my chart). One of Edmond's sailors? who has now become the Count's factotum?
Do you think that Count really believes that he has become the count? I mean: on page 510 he says, "The statues in this antechamber are very poor stuff. I sincerely hope that they will be removed."
Has he really become so insufferably snobbish, or is he just putting on a show for the hired help and the notary who has come to sell him the house in Auteuil?
And there's a back story there, but I can't remember if it has been told already, or if it will be told later... back to the diagram....
ETA: no I'm mixing up memory of past reads with memory or non memory of present reads... very confusing! Never mind...
Do you think that Count really believes that he has become the count? I mean: on page 510 he says, "The statues in this antechamber are very poor stuff. I sincerely hope that they will be removed."
Has he really become so insufferably snobbish, or is he just putting on a show for the hired help and the notary who has come to sell him the house in Auteuil?
And there's a back story there, but I can't remember if it has been told already, or if it will be told later... back to the diagram....
ETA: no I'm mixing up memory of past reads with memory or non memory of present reads... very confusing! Never mind...
Yep! Bertuccio's story will be told. My opinion of the Count has to wait until the end.
I love this quote:
p. 550: The Count is speaking: "I like ghosts. I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day."
Now I remember Bertuccio's story... I thought that I had skipped a chapter earlier on when we were introduced to Caderousse and his wife at their inn.
p. 550: The Count is speaking: "I like ghosts. I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day."
Now I remember Bertuccio's story... I thought that I had skipped a chapter earlier on when we were introduced to Caderousse and his wife at their inn.
Another place where the story is continued by a different narrator.
Finally getting some reading time today... have finished this section. Interesting to imagine how the Count's plans will come together.
Next!
Next!
Chapter 46 ends with the count at Danglars house, they are about to pay a call on Mme Danglars.