( And if you look, you'll notice that Shmoop does this sometimes too – it's part of what makes us and O. Likewise, the narrator is fond of starting sentences with words that grammar sticklers would say you're not supposed to start with, like "And" or "Which." This also has the effect of making one sentence hinge on the sentence before. Although the second sentence at least has a verb, it's also technically not a complete sentence: the subject, "that," is unspecified, and only makes sense given the previous sentence. We get that information in the next sentence: "That was all" (1). We need more information about what that sum of money "means" or "does" in order to understand the sentence. There's no verb or action in that sentence it just states a sum of money. There are lots of sentences that aren't really sentences, like the opening one: "One dollar and eighty-seven cents" (1). Henry achieve this effect? Basically he breaks grammar rules. The story is narrated as if someone were telling it to you aloud. Oral, Simple, Informal (and spun together from incomplete sentences)
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