this article is devoted to the ways of organizing the artistic concept of “betrayal” in the political story of the American writer T. Dreiser “Will You Walk into My Parlor?”. Within the framework of the article, we will consider the individual author's methods of conveying the concept of “betrayal”, represented in the text by a system of characters, verbal and non-verbal communication. Let us analyze the algorithms of the action of images for the implementation of the concept of “betrayal”.

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