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Another example of juxtaposition is evident in Dowell's digression about his amusement on the trip he makes with the Ashburnhams.Dowell describes the scene saying, "I chuckled over it from time to time .... Because it does look very funny, you know, to see a black and white cow land on its back in the middle of a stream. It is so just exactly what one doesn't expect of a cow" (40; pt.1, ch.4).

Another example of juxtaposition is evident in
Dowell's digression about his amusement on the trip
he makes with the Ashburnhams. From the train
window, Dowell sees a brown cow hitch its horn
under the stomach of a black and white one and pitch
it into a stream. Dowell describes the scene saying, "I
chuckled over it from time to time …. Because it does
look very funny, you know, to see a black and white
cow land on its back in the middle of a stream. It is so
just exactly what one doesn't expect of a cow" (40;
pt.1, ch.4). In the coming pages, Leonora appears in
the position of the overturned cow as Florence
begins her formal annexation of Edward.
The technique of juxtaposed situations, as it is
called by Ford, has a significant advantage as it
surprises the reader with one of the little surprises
that give a novel the quality of life.