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The author argues that the chorus in a play is not equivalent to the narrator in a novel. The reasoning is that while they have some similarities, the information introduced by the chorus is sometimes inconsistent with the rest of the information in the play.

The author concludes that because the chorus sometimes introduces information inconsistent with the rest of the information in the play, the chorus is not equivalent to the narrator in a novel. Thus, this must be the source of some difference between the narrator and the chorus — so the narrator in a novel must not introduce information inconsistent with the rest of the novel.

What we need to know is that the narrator doesn’t introduce information inconsistent with the rest of the novel. But the narrator could be deceptive without introducing information inconsistent with the novel. The could be parts of the novel that deceive the reader.

The author is comparing the chorus in a play to the narrator in a novel — there’s nothing to suggest they ever need to be used together.

Even if the information the chorus provides was always unnecessary, the conclusion could still hold. It could still be that the unnecessary information is inconsistent with the rest of the play, and that the chorus isn’t equivalent to the narrator.

This is both sufficient and necessary. It bridges us from the premise (the chorus sometimes introduces inconsistent information) to the conclusion (the chorus and narrator are not equivalent). This requires knowing that the narrator won’t introduce inconsistent information.

We know that choruses sometimes introduce information inconsistent with the play. But this could be due to lots of reasons — it doesn’t have to be that the author wants to mislead. The argument doesn’t depend on the author’s intent.

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