Selecting either position would mea

Selecting either position would mean applying common interpretive practices. That, however, too neatly ignores the central issue raised by the ambiguity surrounding Dowell’s opening statement. Like the movement of light that simultaneously displays characteristics of wave and particle patterns of quantum physics, and, as a result, does not yield to analysis through classical methods of science, a reader cannot fully explain a complex literary figure like John Dowell by using conventional, either/or critical methods. These approaches, no matter how sophisticated, always omit something.