Interpretation of literary

part IV. It can help the students in their work at the scheme of 
interpretation. 
I. Some data about the author. Sinclair Lewis (1885—1951) is a 
well-known American novelist and playwright. He left twenty-one 
novels. All his novels arc of great cognitive significance and may be 
called the guide-books of America. 
Among his best novels are "Main street" (1920), "Babbitt" (1924), 
"Arrow smith" (1925), "Ann Vickers" (1933); "Kings blood Boyal" 

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(1947), "The God Seeker" (1949). His best books are shot through with 
flashes of satire directed against many aspects of American life-middle 
class conventions, its smug hypocrisy, religion and many others. "Arrow 
smith" is his seventh novel in which he describes the experiences of a 
physician who would like to be honest in the society he lives in. The 
novel is written in such a way that each period of Arrow smith’s life 
gives the author a splendid opportunity to reveal many aspects of 
American reality. 
II. The factual information, i.e. the plot. The plot of the passage 
is not complicated. In it, the author acquaints the reader with the state 
of Winamac arid the University of Winnemac, the main character 
Martin Arrow smith who is an Arts and Science Junior preparing for 
medical school; the Digamma Pi Fraternity to which Martin belongs; 
other members of the Fraternity; the residence of Digamma Pi and its 
value at the examination time. 
III. The shape of prose and the composition of the passage. 
The passage is told in the name of the,author and it presents a mixture 
of several kinds of prose: the author's narration, description and 
dialogue. The composition of the story doesn't deviate from the 
traditional model. The interpreted passage presents a closed plot 
structure as it includes all the elements of the plot. I. exposition (it is 
the description of the state of Winnemac and the University of 
Winnemac) 2.3. the beginning of the plot and the development of the 
plot (the reader is getting acquainted with the protagonist of the passage 
Martin Arrowsmith, Digamma 
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fraternity and its members). 4. climax 
(it is the episode describing the members of Digamma Pi fraternity at 
examination time and their "la- 
bours" with Fatty Pfaff who "had failed in the mid-year anatomical". 
5. denouement (the decision of the members of the Fraternity to supply 
Fatty with a crib) 6. end (it is a brief information about Fatty's success 
at the exam. 
The architectonics of the passage is transparent, it presents the 
division of the passage into paragraphs. The segmentation of the text 
answers the author's pragmatic aim and the reader's convenience. 
Several paragraphs concide with the parts of composition and possess 
relative completeness. 
The main idea of the text can be easily revealed, through the 
analysis of some poetic details and stylistic devices. 

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