 Fielding 's plays do not prophesy that he will become a major novelist , but the direction of his theatrical career does suggest concerns that increasingly led him away from pure representation [ ... ] Fielding 's separation from the theatre was a forced one , but the expulsion was fortunate , freeing him from a relationship and commitment that had always been in some sense against the grain [ ... ] Fielding 's way is not really very dramatic , either in novels or in plays ; he never developed stage @-@ likely objective correlatives , having reserved his artistic energy for the examining process in which the action is rerun again and again , reviewed , considered , nearly <unk> . 
