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... characters with the passage of time is not necessarily to integrate them . What unity there is is imposed from outside ; and unity and significance are much more satisfactorily realized in the episode , towards the end of To the Light ...
... characters with the passage of time is not necessarily to integrate them . What unity there is is imposed from outside ; and unity and significance are much more satisfactorily realized in the episode , towards the end of To the Light ...
Page 119
... characters are poor whites , farmers existing on the subsistence level . But Caldwell is a social critic in a more obvious and cruder sense than Faulkner : his characters are victims of a social system that has de- humanized them to ...
... characters are poor whites , farmers existing on the subsistence level . But Caldwell is a social critic in a more obvious and cruder sense than Faulkner : his characters are victims of a social system that has de- humanized them to ...
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... characters are brought together through the purely adventi- tious unity of place . For Plomer , the place is a boarding - house in London . But the characters are not merely inhabitants of a boarding- house ; they are also to be seen as ...
... characters are brought together through the purely adventi- tious unity of place . For Plomer , the place is a boarding - house in London . But the characters are not merely inhabitants of a boarding- house ; they are also to be seen as ...
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