The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.

作者在最后一章把不同的情节线索归拢到了一起。

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When he is gone from Moscow and then St. Petersburg, there was always this tendency to have these sort of cabales to get together and sort of plot.

当他离开莫斯科和圣彼得堡外出时,就会有人秘密集会,结党营私,秘谋造反

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But Ms. Hellman knew how to nail a plot together so tightly that the seams don't show, as well as how to ring down a curtain so hard that the audience gasps.

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They just got rid of plot motivation all together.

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The plot stitches them loosely together, as Catcher, the unreconstructed Lothario, tries to force Barbara, the scourge of soft hearts, to fall in love with him.

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