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Camille Bordas Reads Saul Bellow

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There Such a Shifting View of Women in Thi Story?

In the first half, i think every woman who appears is referred to as difficult. He's feeling put off about women and how they behave or what they ask of him. And then you the kind of his sort of cry for equality, but at the same time, his cry for mothering and nurturing. I mean, luckily, all his nastiness is internal. Eit doesn't get express ye, he doesn't talk to anyi mean, he does, you know, talk about the gurgins as being robbery,. That offence, the dally gy by a, it's his one one out loud criticism.

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