The Last Picture Show | Techniques
It is the description of the town and the characters that gives The Last Picture Show its reality. McMurtry captures precisely the moods, thoughts, reactions, and desires of small-town high-school students; likewise, he discovers the characters in the town by revealing their thoughts—not grand thoughts, but the small thoughts that run through peoples minds that, altogether, define them. The description of the town, though, is what captures the reader at the beginning of the novel:
There was only one car parked on the courthouse square—the night watchman's...
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