Why Was the Structure of Citizen Kane So Difficult for Audiences

question 13

Multiple Choice

Why was the structure of Citizen Kane so difficult for audiences of its time?

• A) It demanded that they care for unsympathetic characters.
• B) Its distinction between past, present, and future events was highly ambiguous.
• C) It asked the audience to fill in plot details and order the story out of an elliptical narrative.
• D) It covered too much historical time for an audience to properly process.
• E) It never explicitly stated when the events in the story took place.

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