Essay - 'If Tomorrow Comes ' by Sidney Sheldon the Significance of...

"If tomorrow comes " by Sidney Sheldon

The Significance of Setting in ***** Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes

Sidney ***** novel, If ***** Comes, is largely an adventure book, in which the action and the plot move ahead breathlessly, keeping ***** suspense up from the beginning to the very end, and even after. The book starts off with a shocking event, plunging the reader right in ***** middle of the action, and affording no time for accommodation. Dor***** Whitney, the mother ***** Tracy Whitney who is the main character of ***** *****, mysteriously commits suicide by putting a gun ***** her head in ***** New Orleans Home. This is actually the event that triggers ***** rest of the ***** in the book, completely and indefinitely d*****r*****ting *****'s peaceful and happy life. Moreover, as it w***** said, the book ends in a suspenseful tone as **********: even if everything turns well eventually and Tracy is safely embarked on a plane ***** will lead her to a new life with ***** fiance Jeff Stevens, the last lines ***** the book introduce a new and mysterious ***** by ***** name of Maximlien Pierp*****t, ***** only just makes ********** acquaintance as the book *****. This leaves the story hanging and ***** actual end of the story can only be a groping surmise.

***** continuous action of the book follows Tracy's adventures and her some*****s harrowing experiences. While Tracy, ***** well as ***** other characters in the book, are rather sketches than fully-fledged persons, what is *****teresting is the way in ***** Tracy is transformed into a much more soph*****ticated and experienced woman. The setting and the experiences she h***** to undergo, make of Tracy a stronger *****nd more accomplis*****ed woman. At the beginning of the *****, Tracy is a perfectly happy young woman, with almost no experience of pain or evil in any way. She is an impassioned and successful career *****, working for a prestigious bank in Philadelphia and about to marry ***** man she loves. Moreover, her fiance seems to be a fairy tale prince, handsome, gallant and incredibly rich. In the height of ***** happiness, ***** also finds out that she is carrying Charles Stanhope's child. Her perfect happiness is in a continuous growth for the few first p*****ges of the novel. Tracy is beautiful, young, successful and ***** to ***** the man ***** her dreams: "That morning the people would turn they heads smiling when she passed *****, envying the happiness that radiated on her face. ***** would re***** the smile."(Sidney, 13) On the point of being promoted in the bank and on setting the wedding date with Charles, Tracy's world crumbles when a midnight teleph*****e call announces ***** death of her *****. Although the effect of this upturn is dramatic, ********** are hints that something was not right in Tracy's ***** even before her m*****'s *****. In ***** absolute ingenuousness, she fails to see Charles' less ***** ***** character and his pedantry. She *****not see the signs that clearly indicate