Interpretation of literary

situation that is taking shape as a result of the development of the entire 
preceding action. 
All basic elements of plot construction — exposition, initial collision, 
development of action (story), culmination, denouement, can be given in 
the most various forms. Sometimes separate links of the plot chain can 
be omitted. Many short stories begin immediately from the initial 
collision and contain no exposition. The reader himself conjectures it. 
The majority of E.Hemingway's stories can servo as examples. 
A work of narrative prose that has al! traditional elements including the 
end has a closed plot structure. This type of writing was most, broadly 
cultivated by such American short story writers as W.Irving, E. Poe, N. 
Hawthorn, Bret Hart, H.James, O. Henry and others. 
A literary work in which the action is represented without an obvious 
culmination, which does not contain all the above mentioned elements 

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understood in their conventional sense is said to have an open plot 
structure. 
Plot structure (whether it is open or closed) entirely depends on the 
content of the text. The text (a short story, for example) which gives the 
sequence of events, the dynamic development of action usually has a 
closed structure, forming an ascending line from the exposition on to the 
climax and down to the denouement. "Wild Flowers" by E.Caldwell 
may serve as an illustration. The text which describes the drama of a 
character's inner world (the so called "psychological or character" story) 
has an open plot structure. In such texts the traditional components of 
the plot are not easily discernible and the action is less dynamic. Little if 
anything happens in such stories. The plot, as such, is practically event-
less, but it is only a surface layer and behind it we find the drama of a 
character's inner world. Many of E.Hemingway's stories are of this type 
("Cat in the Rain", "In Another Country")- 
So the plot structure of the text is not a formal factor. It is undoubtedly 
meaningful, being closely connected with the character of information in 
the text.