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...rich in plotting, it lacks substantial character development. The characters’ true emotions are only conveyed through the narrator, Lincoln, which is problematic because he does not and cannot speak for all the characters. One example of this problem is when Brett believes that he is satisfying both Lincoln??€™s and his wife’s greatest desires by having them sleep together. While Lincoln as narrator tells us afterwards that this was not the case, Mrs. Brett has no such opportunity. In fact, Lincoln??€™s voice excludes the perspective of all the female characters...
...point, as Morris was addressing his writing method, his wife Sylvia spoke about how a photo of Abraham Lincoln??€™s funeral had inspired her own biography of Roosevelt’s second wife...
During the Civil War, average Americans did not demand constant knowledge of the inner workings of Lincoln??€™s cabinet. They did not gripe when they did not receive advance warning of the president’s policies, and they did not complain about not knowing the Union’s military strategy. All that was required to satisfy Americans then was a clear statement of the government’s intentions: the defeat and re-incorporation of the rebellious states into the Union. Now, however, citizens feel that they have the right to know what goes...