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Page 38
... figure of Mrs Moore , the old lady on whom India has so strange an effect and who becomes , after she leaves India to die on the voyage home , almost a local goddess . She is not presented to us as an especially remarkable old lady ...
... figure of Mrs Moore , the old lady on whom India has so strange an effect and who becomes , after she leaves India to die on the voyage home , almost a local goddess . She is not presented to us as an especially remarkable old lady ...
Page 85
... 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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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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