This excerpt creates suspense by making the reader wonder
Read the excerpt from chapter 4 of The Strange Case
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
This last, however, was not so easy of accomplishment;
for Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars-even the
master of the servant maid had only seen him twice; his
family could nowhere be traced; he had never been
photographed; and the few who could describe him
differed widely, as common observers will. Only on one
point were they agreed; and that was the haunting
sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive
impressed his beholders.
Ohow Mr. Hyde had managed to be seen by so few
people.
why people who had seen Mr. Hyde could only
agree on one point
when Mr. Hyde would see any of his family
members again.
O what people would do if they actually got a long look
at Mr. Hyde.