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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What's Going on in His Mind?

"He is so conflicted, so conflicted in that scene because he wants to be told to do something. He doesn't feel able to do anything," she said. "What he's angry about is that she's kind of closed a door in his face and not engaged with him."

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