Summary the narrator a writer prides himself on his astute review of hugh vereker s latest novel.
The figure in the carpet summary.
On his return to london the narrator sets about his work of investigation and.
This is the famous figure in the carpet of the story s title and it is what vereker sets the narrator to discover.
The figure in the carpet is partly about readers and the obsessions they can sometimes develop with writers who intrigue them.
The figure in the carpet has become a short hand or idiom for the key to understanding a writer s work.
The figure in the carpet plot summary an un named literary critic feels he has successfully.
In that sense it s a kind of warning not to associate writers lives too closely with their work so i won t try to figure out what it might mean in connection with henry james own life and work.