What does Sargent (1916, Ch. IX) say is the difference between a plot and a mere incident or series of incidents?
Sargent (1916 US trade manual) says the beginner 'mistakes incident for plot': a series of happenings tied only by shared characters is not a plot, because incidents lack a central object on which interest can concentrate. A plot, for him, is the recital of how a definite, predetermined object is gained or lost. His test case: George asks Agnes, she says yes or no, and it is history, not plot, until opposition (struggle) is added. These are his claims; the George/Agnes material is his example. His market assertion about how many scripts lack plot is garbled in the OCR (see -04).
Sargent (1916 US trade manual) says the beginner 'mistakes incident for plot': a series of happenings tied only by shared characters is not a plot, because incidents lack a central object on which interest can concentrate. A plot, for him, is the recital of how a definite, predetermined object is gained or lost. His test case: George asks Agnes, she says yes or no, and it is history, not plot, until opposition (struggle) is added. These are his claims; the George/Agnes material is his example. His market assertion about how many scripts lack plot is garbled in the OCR (see -04).
Curator qualifications: Incident-vs-plot claim and object-based plot definition verified; George/Agnes is his example.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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