ENG214H5 Lecture Notes - Shared Experience, Indian Camp, Stoicism
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Inter-chapters/vignettes: secondary/peripheral to the longer, titled short stories, relating the vignettes to the titled short stories. The book is obliquely about the war: how subject lives in the post-war world. They act as the textual bodies adding up. Confusion as we attempt to relate it to the titled short-stories. Autobiographical interpolations: bill"s nickname for nick, wemidge, was also hemingway"s nickname while he was in the war. Nothing beautiful being represented of the war. Shift in the inter-chapters: moves from war to bull fighting. Nick following path, sees fire, diverts from path, off putting encounter, returns to path. You struggle but you only go where you go: emblem of futility, no straight path defined for nick, mobile metaphor. Language used to describe bugs: bugs is capable of showing a level of compassion that ad. Bugs is a dependant who functions in a domestic role. He is also a moral regulator for ad.
