That's enough to be going on with, don't you think? The name is Sherlock Holmes, and the address is 221B Baker Street. You've got a brother worried about you, but you won't go to him for help, because you don't approve of him, possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife, and I know your therapist thinks your limp's psychosomatic, quite correctly, I'm afraid. He then offers more exposition in the following monologue: “I know you're an Army doctor, and you've been invalided home from Afghanistan. Due to Sherlock’s almost superhuman abilities to read people within seconds, he lets the audience know that John is a war veteran and deduces that John is looking for a flatmate. The exposition in the first meeting between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is the perfect balance between heavy-handed and essential.
'Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune four or five thousand a year. Morris immediately that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.'
Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. This opening sequence reveals most of the main characters, their relationships to one another and when the central conflict will be: finding husbands for the Bennet sisters. Bingley, who is accompanied by his even richer friend Mr. At the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, the heroine Elizabeth Bennet’s mother informs the family that “Netherfield Park is let at last,” meaning that they have a new neighbor.
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