526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
The History of Literature
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The Dilemma of Sam Ryder
The wife of his youth riders speaking in a hypothetical but we now recognize that this is his dilemma he was that man married to that woman look at his response to her when she asks him I don't know. ladies and gentlemen friends and companions I ask you what should he have done okay I hate to pause there cliffhanger but can you believe it? He turns to Shakespeare god bless him into Hamlet because this is an existential crisis Hamlet the play is appropriate and Polonius's advice is one that has rung through the ages don't deceive yourself to thine own self be true. The question is what is riders true self is that the free-born Sam who loved
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