... from Robert Browning for fear it might look as if he were "airing his superior education" (Schwarz, 1994:24). Ironically, it is this very feeling of success on which Gabriel leaves the party with his beloved Gretta, and which is later punctured by the revelation of her secret past, in the form of her first love, the deceased yet somehow eternally ... such a love as this, and always will be "playing second fiddle" to the true love of Gretta's life. It has even been said that the final scene of the snow falling upon Michael's grave, with its imagery of crosses and spears and thorns ("It l...

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... revealed that the narrator is in love with his friend Mangan's sister, also unnamed. He eerily stalks her every day, he waits from behind his window to see when she leaves her house so he can follow her, always keeping in mind how "[he] did not know whether [he] would ever speak to her or not or how [he] would ... of society. Technology, especially phones and computers, are rapidly evolving. Those who aren't current in terms of having the newest piece of technology are given the sense that they're falling behind. To "escape" this oppressive trend, one would have to follow a Thoreauvian ...

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