Benito Cereno

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Submitted by UberLisa on November 1, 2007

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Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno: Frederick Busch; [Captain Delano]

In this criticism of Benito Cereno, Frederick Busch begins by making a direct reference to the excessive use of the color 'gray' about the environment. "The sea is 'gray,' the swells 'lead,' the sky 'gray'; the 'gray' fowl fly through 'troubled gray vapors,' and the scene is summarized by 'shadows present, foreshadowing shadows to come.' So the reader is alerted that he will have to read this world and interpret the grays." With this statement, he ponders the shadowy presence surrounding most of the story that is so dark as to overtake the beginning of this story from the first view of San Dominick on the horizon. This...

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