As this occurs he is able to see the things realistically: He sees his present life, with a dysfunctional family to maintain and a job without future, as a nailed coffin in which he is trapped. ... He is hoping to achieve success by starting a course on public speaking hoping that it will help him achieve an executive position in an important job. ... Due to the lack of a responsible male figure in the family, the Winfield family is left without any means to support itself economically and therefore, Tom is forced to work in a job which he hates, a job which drives him, slowly, to act like hi...

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She took a job in New York, as a librarian and enrolled her daughter in a nearby public school.# Dorothea and her mother took the ferry everyday into a neighborhood packed with poor people, newly arrived in America. ... All her various apprentices completed to her satisfaction, Dorothea prepared for the most defiant act of independence of her life. ...

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The injury caused many problems in his life, even interfering with his job. ... "The marriage gave him personal satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly placed of his associates" (Tolstoy 107). ...

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• Grade Level: High School