Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 49 philosophical musings 46 melancholy 46 digressive 45 absurdism 45 imagistic 45 allusions 45 seriocomic 45 juvenilia 45 simplicities 45 elegies 45 densely layered 45 richly layered 45 narrative 45 affectingly 45 linear narrative 44 plangent 44 elegiac 44 allusive 43 folkish 43 preachiness 43 subtexts 43 ponderings 43 interludes 43 lyrical themes 43 didacticism 43 allegories 43 dreaminess 43 melancholic 43 Thought provoking 43 metaphors 43 overarching themes 43 foregrounds 42 timelessly 42 cliché ridden 42 authorial 42 conceits 42 finely wrought 42 retellings 42 epigrams 42 gnomic 42 prose 42 evocations 42 evocative 42 Riffing 42 interweaving 41 lyrical 41 maudlin 41 phrasings 41 stylistic 41 incantatory 41 Chekhovian 41 mawkish 41 narratives 41 doomy 41 haunting 41 recurring motif 41 noir ish 41 limned 41 melodramatic 41 poetic 41 pastiches 41 leavens 41 romanticism 41 pastiche 41 ruminations 40 cohere 40 chapter headings 40 mawkishness 40 Romantic 40 psychological thrillers 40 oeuvre 40 Thematically 40 corniness 40 impressionistic 40 evocation 40 romantic 40 themes 40 singable 40 dissonances 39 sly humor 39 digresses 39 noirish 39 mise en scène 39 subtext 39 tropes 39 wistful 39 storytelling 39 poetical 39 self reflexive 39 leitmotif 39 formulaic 39 tonalities 39 prefigures 39 discursive 39 soap operatic 39 clichéd 39 stagey 39 tuneful 39 Hitchcockian 39 rhyming couplets 39 reimagines