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Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There a Moral in the Story?

The story's sort of ambivent about the father. He's a guy in a bad situation who's not the best father, um. But people, now, one's in the best environment. I mean, i feel like clive is a third boy in the story,. Because he's sort of enfantalized by, in a sense, working for a paternal figure who keeps tabs on him.

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