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The preface frames the tale’s core idea: an hour of ease can feel like a crisis, shaping Strether’s “process of vision” and his need to address damage to character. It emphasizes moral warning, the repeated notion of “mistake,” and the search for possible reparation through candid guidance.","The Ambassadors  \nHenry James  \nPublished: 1903  \nCategorie(s): Fiction, Literary  \nSource: [http://www.gutenberg.org](http://www.gutenberg.org)  \nAbout James:  \nHenry James, son of theologian Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. James significantly contributed to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, he published substantive books of travel writing, biography, autobiography and visual arts criticism. Source: Wikipedia  \nAlso available on Feedbooks James:  \n The Portrait of a Lady (1881)  \n The Turn ofthe Screw (1898)  \n The Beast in the Jungle (1903)  \n Daisy Miller (1879)  \n Hawthorne (1879)  \n The Golden Bowl (1904)  \n The Bostonians (1886)  \n A Bundle ofLetters (1879)  \n Wings of the Dove (1902)  \n The American Scene (1907)  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \nPreface  \nNothing is more easy than to state the subject of \"The Ambassadors,\"which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader's benefit, into as few words as possible—planted or \"sunk,\" stiffly and saliently, in the centre of the current, almost perhaps to the obstruction of traffic. Never can a composition of this sort have sprung straighter from a dropped grain of suggestion, and never can that grain, developed, overgrown and smothered, have yet lurked more in the mass as an independent particle. The whole case, in fine, is in Lambert Strether's irrepressible outbreak to little Bilham on the Sunday afternoon in Gloriani's garden, the candour with which he yields, for his young friend's enlightenment, to the charming admonition of that crisis. The idea of the tale resides indeed in the very fact that an hour of such unprecedented ease should have been felt by him AS a crisis, and he is at pains to express it for us as neatly as we could desire. The remarks to which he thus gives utterance contain the essence of \"The Ambassadors,\" his fingers close, before he has done, round the stem of the full-blown flower; which, after that fashion, he continues officiously to present to us. \"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what HAVE you had? I'm too old—too old at any rate for what I see. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that. Still, we have the illusion of freedom; therefore don't, like me to-day, be without the memory of that illusion. I was either, at the right time, too stupid or too intelligent to have it, and now I'm a case of reaction against the mistake. Do what you like so long as you don't make it. For it WAS a mistake. Live, live!\" Such is the gist of Strether's appeal to the impressed youth, whom he likes and whom he desires to befriend; the word \"mistake\" occurs several times, it will be seen, in the course of his remarks—which gives the measure of the signal warning he feels attached to his case. He has accordingly missed too much, though perhaps after all constitutionally qualified for a better part, and he wakes up to it in conditions that press the spr","cbCaitAqCfoDf0Gz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitAqCfoDf0Gz","pdf",2137394,3,1,409,"English","en",105,"# Preface\n## Tale’s subject and origin\n## Strether’s appeal to Bilham\n## The “process of vision” and moral purpose\n## How the preface’s image and hints are formed","[{\"question\":\"What event does the preface identify as the tale’s central situation?\",\"answer\":\"It is Lambert Strether’s outburst to little Bilham on Sunday afternoon in Gloriani’s garden, where Strether yields to a crisis that guides his young friend.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the preface describe the meaning of “ease” within the story?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that an hour of unprecedented ease should be felt as a crisis, making “mistake” and warning central to Strether’s appeal and his sense of loss.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the preface say the tale demonstrates?\",\"answer\":\"It presents the story as a demonstration of Strether’s “process of vision,” including the possibility of reparation for injury done to his character.\"}]","The Ambassadors - 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