insight and commentary on Phantom of the Opera
We’ll probably never know the true answer to this question. However, there are some reasons I can think of that he would have done so. 1. He was writing fiction and didn’t care that much. The narrator of the story insists that the events actually happened. Therefore, the story is supposed to be a “journalistic” …
The story starts with the farewell gala and continues through the Persian reporting that Erik is dead. Some dates are given, some are not. Others can be determined based on clues like ‘a few days later’, ‘the next day’, etc. Through a thorough reading of the story, consultation with a calendar, and even some counting …
An idea occurred to me several months ago, to determine once and for all the date that the story takes place. I knew that other people had tried to figure it out, but I couldn’t find a run down of the passages they had examined and how they had come to the conclusions they had. …