Let us find it on a specific example from the novel by Maugham “The Moon and
Sixpence”:
Mrs. Strickland had the gift of sympathy. It is a charming faculty, but one often
abused by those who are conscious of its possession: for there is something ghoulish
in the avidity with which they will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that
they may exercise their dexterity. It gushes forth like an oil – well, and the sympathetic
pour out their sympathy with an abandon that is sometimes embarrassing to their
victims [18].
In this fragment of the gift of sympathy is a hyponym towards charming faculty.
Thus, the charming faculty is hyperonym. In the author`s digression, the author uses
hyperonym, i.e. he seems to summarize what has been said before, and operates with
more general concepts, as the presented class of hyperonym is wider than hyponym
has. In most cases, the text mostly has hyponym and a hyperonym in the author`s
digression (i.e. turning species under the genus). The author suggests that one of the
characters is the gift of compassion; a gift of sympathy (hyponym) and after that, the
author`s digression takes the word “excellent quality” charming faculty, which is
hyperonym. There is no reverse transition from hyperonym (in the text) to hyponym
(in the author`s digression) in the course of the conducted by the interpretative analysis,
because the content of the author`s digression itself does not provide the clarification
of the concepts but the lyrical reflections, expression of feelings, emotions.
There are author`s digressions that are combined with the text by verbal means of
the verbalization of emotions, feelings, moods. Often the author`s digression is the
original author's emotional reaction to the current events:
Women! I had always thought that to live on a woman's immoral earnings you
must be a strapping flashy fellow with sex appeal, ready with your knife or your gun;
it was astonishing that such a puny creature, who might have been a lawyer's clerk from
his appearance, could get a footing in such an overcrowded profession [35].
In this example, where the selected fragment is the author`s digression, the
addresser expresses his views I had always thought that to live on a woman's immoral
earnings you must be a strapping flashy ... to the actions of a character in the novel, I
noticed her take something (money) out of her bag and hand it to him. For the author
of the text, the very fact that the woman is giving money to the man and that man not
only accepts it, but can live on them is humiliating. In author`s digression, he gives the
characteristics of this type of people (fellow strapping with flashy sex appeal).
Therefore, the connecting element between the text and the author`s digression is the
author's response on the events taking place, i.e. the expression of emotion to the
previously described fact.
In the following author`s digression from the text of the novel by Maugham “The
Moon and Sixpence” the actual attitude of the author towards the depicted in the text
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