A constant question which has to be evaluated in their mind is, "Will I conform to the desires of my peers?... John Cheever's short story, "The Country Husband," presents a story in which the protagonist, Francis Weed, must make a decision about conformity. ... At some point in everyone's life, they have to think about the values that have been imposed upon them during their earlier years. ... Sometimes the community does not allow a person to express growth in their life. ... Another principal character in the story is the dog, Jupiter. ...

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With every twitch of a clock, it seemed that years passed. ... He wanders from moment to moment in his life, experiencing chronologically jumbled events one right after another. ... Weary repeatedly saves Billy's life, mostly by not allowing him to lie down in the snow and die. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five German soldiers and a police dog. ... MY COMMENTS: There are a few things in this chapter that come to my attention. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

By the end of the nineteenth century the pre-industrial economy and way of life had almost disappeared. ... Auden will probably still be read in a hundred years' time. ... Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. ... In 1898 he published his Wessex Poems, verse that he had written over the previous thirty years. ...

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