The letter of August 13th reveals that the guest, as Walton calls him, has started showing different characteristics that Walton himself finds really attractive. ... Although there are no people in the ship able to offer Walton a close relationship of profound knowledge and friendship, this stranger looks like the companion Watson's been wishing for during his whole quest. ... In another intervention by the stranger, the topic of friendship comes up in the conversation, just after Walton has confessed the stranger his thirst of sympathy with another person. The stranger tells Walton t...

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Crooks do not want a close relationship between the ranch people, just as they hold no desire of building a friendship with him. ... Although loneliness has made Crooks to be a bitter person and to lash out others, it has also made him to secretly wish for friendship. ... Crooks is "pleasured" by Candy's presence, because it is the first time a guest came to his home to visit. ... Ultimately, Crooks is mean and churlish to Lennie, but later on he become friendly with him and admitted his desire of attempting friendship. Loneliness has affected Crooks by making him a hostile pe...

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• Grade Level: High School

He thinks that everything is bought with money, including love and friendship, but in the end it turns out to be fake. ... The guests were drinking and getting out of control, while Gatsby was just behaving calmly, basically avoiding the action. ...

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• Grade Level: High School