This helps to create a parable replete with suspense, a quality of many well-crafted stories. In The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, the characters withhold much of their interior lives from both one another and from the reader. Above shows a mocking cartoon of Charles Darwin as an ape, demonstrating the difficulty that people who believed in the story of the Bible had in understanding his theory of evolution-a new story entirely. James's deliberate obscuring of a definitive reliable narrator parallels the lack of certitude with which people of the 19th century could believe the contradicting stories that science and religion tell.
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