Answer to Question #119342 in English for Rubi

Question

Following the narrator’s rich descriptions and exalted dreams of the Wonder Horse, the horse’s capture is unspectacular and somewhat of a letdown. Why does the author deliberately raise and then disappoint the reader’s expectations?

Answer 1

The author deliberately raise and then disappoint the reader’s expectations to absorb them into the art and provoke their thoughts on what happened after the horse's capture.