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across O'Connor's fiction: short, long, medium, whatever.
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Her characters are not very endearing.
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So you want to ask yourself why that's so.
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This is a conscious decision on her part, and you want to think
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about that decision.
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If there is any character who seems kind of endearing,
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at least for me, it's probably Enoch.
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And we'll talk a little bit more about him: not today,
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but in the second lecture and in section.
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So, with these questions in mind, I want you think about how we can
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see the novel and how we can think about it in the face of the
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interpretation that's already layered on to it.