“‘This is sort of an O. Henry moment, isn’t it?’ Sally says.”
Sally references O. Henry after she arrives home with yellow roses for Clarissa, but notices that she already has some. O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, was an American short-story writer, who specialized in stories with coincidental or twist endings. It is coincidental and a bit of a twist that both women have bought both the flowers. I believe that Michael Cunningham may have referenced O. Henry here to serve as foreshadowing—the novel has very much of a twist ending, with Richard’s death and him turning out to be Laura Brown’s son.
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very nice -- one could do quite an exploration of such foreshadowing in the novel -- consider also Woolf's liberal use of literary figures
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