Henry James In The Funeral Article Of Lippincott's Magazine

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Henry James in the funeral article of Lippincott’s Magazine from July, 1877, uses a positive respectful tone and a negative degrading tone. Henry narrates Mr.Odger’s funeral which took place in London five weeks before the Easter period. The crowd gathers in order to give Mr.Odger an honorable burial. James as an spectator sees the funeral in two different ways. Henry’s diction expresses arrogance towards the crowd and towards Mr.Odger as he understands how much of a hardworking man he was, but at the same time looks down upon those at the funeral. Mr.Odger received an “honorable burial”, due to gathering a crowd with “classic gentility”’ making this funeral the “finest of the year”. The crowd that was in the funeral was behaved as they followed