Nabokov has a peaceful, gentle tone, he isn't trying to force his opinions on the reader. He states his points clearly but wants the reader to form their own ideas from his points. He states that a good reader and writer must have a good sense of imagination. Nabokov wants the reader to use their imagination when reading his essay. Whereas, in Italo Calvino's essay he forced his ideas on you and used his authority to make you see things his way. Vladimir Nabokov to me is completely the opposite. He makes his points very casually, he even uses questions to make his points so you can answer the question with your own ideas and imagination. Nabokov really stresses that you need an imagination. For example, "Can we rely on Jane Austen's picture of landowning England with baronets and landscaped grounds when all she knew was a clergyman's parlor?" (Nabokov, Page 1) This question refers to whether or not you can rely on the historical information that is written in novel such as Jane Austen . He wants you to think what you want to think about this question, he wants you to draw your own conclusions from this question.
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