Reread Zola's little hotel to learn the scene and sequence layout of the story

Zola is one of the most admired French writers for his concise writing I was deeply impressed by the scene description of his masterpiece "little hotel" I'm tired of studying novel theory these days, so I took this book out and read it again The little hotel is divided into 13 chapters, which in my opinion are 13 "sequences" In fact, there is a larger "curtain" in the novel structure, which is usually composed of three or four sequences, but we will not discuss it here first, only analyze the sequence and the smaller units including "Scene" and "beat" I finished the first chapter today It's a typical sequence consisting of three scenes and dozens of beats This sequence realizes the function of "beginning" and "incentive event" in the whole novel, which makes a great change to the life of the heroine, Qi erweisi: her fiance, francier, leaves behind her orphans and widows, facing the life of lack of clothes and food The climax of the sequence takes place in the second scene, when Qi erweisi hears her son saying that his father has run away from home in the laundry and fights with virgini in anger Later, the heroine returned home, facing the empty room as the end Leave a big suspense and two foreshadows in the first sequence Suspense is how mother and son of qierweisi support themselves, which paves the way for the story The foreshadowing includes the whereabouts of longier and GuBo's affection for the heroine Zola likes to use verbs to describe the scene The scene is lifelike, just like the scene This is similar to Flaubert, who doesn't like to use adjectives, but uses continuous actions to inspire readers' imagination and form excellent interactive effect of movie playing.