Re: Looking for story examples (SPOILERS)

Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote or quoted:

  I'm looking for examples of novels or stories that have some detail
revealed early on that later serves as a major plot point, but the
significance of which was forgotten or not noticed by the time it occurs.

  There's a web article "The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina"
  by Gary Saul Morson about how Tolstoy hid some crucial
  information in "Anna Karenina" in "open camouflage", which
  information critics then repeatedly miss, according to Morson.

  As another example, Bob Dylan wrote,

|Señor, señor, do you know where she is hidin'?

  . Dylan is passing to us the crucial information that this
  woman /is hidding/ from the narrator, but it is passed kind
  of indirectly in a subordinate clause, as if the main thing
  was asking the "señor" about her whereabouts.