# Epigraph explained — There Is Confusion

> Chapter companion for There Is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset.

## What happens

The epigraph presents a quote from Tennyson that sets a tone of profound suffering and compounding troubles, foreshadowing the emotional and social conflicts to come in the novel.

## Key lines

> There is confusion worse than death, Trouble on trouble; pain on pain⁠—

There is a state of disarray more terrible than dying, with one calamity and agony following another.

_The epigraph from Tennyson's work encapsulates the novel's themes of escalating hardship and emotional turmoil._

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