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... figure . This , Dreiser seems to be telling us , is the truth about man , will - less man , forever the victim of circum- stances . The tragedy , if tragedy there is , lies in the implicit contrast between what a man expects of life ...
... figure . This , Dreiser seems to be telling us , is the truth about man , will - less man , forever the victim of circum- stances . The tragedy , if tragedy there is , lies in the implicit contrast between what a man expects of life ...
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... figure who was a completely adequate equivalent to himself at the time of writing . Stahr , too , is a desperately sick man , disenchanted with life , but striving still to work , to make something out of chaos , a lonely artist ...
... figure who was a completely adequate equivalent to himself at the time of writing . Stahr , too , is a desperately sick man , disenchanted with life , but striving still to work , to make something out of chaos , a lonely artist ...
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... figure comparable to the ' I , Walt Whitman ' of ' Leaves of Grass ' , a figure who is not quite the author but the author generalized , universalized , the Whitmanesque ' I am the man , I suffer'd , I was there ' . These devices ...
... figure comparable to the ' I , Walt Whitman ' of ' Leaves of Grass ' , a figure who is not quite the author but the author generalized , universalized , the Whitmanesque ' I am the man , I suffer'd , I was there ' . These devices ...
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