Edith Wharton's short story, "The Debt" from her book "Tales of Men and Ghosts", does a great job proving the moral through the title of the story. ... A young man by the name of Archie Lanfear brings home his friend Galen Dredge for a visit during the summer. One day Archie took Galen by Buzzard's Bay, a place where Archie's father, Professor Lanfear worked at in an attempt to introduce him to his father. Galen admired the place by the look of astonishment on his face especially with the fact that there was a biological station nearby that interested Galen. ... Although the tit...

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" takes place in the early 1960's and tells the tale of fifteen year old Connie who is stalked and evidently abducted by a man who calls himself Arnold Friend. ... One theme out of several in the book is clearly "initiation" as Connie is an innocent teenager on the cusp of becoming an adult who is seduced by way of her own vanity. ... She represents a typical teenager struggling with the idea of coming of age that has dual versions of themselves as Oates put it, "one for home and one for anywhere that was not home." ... When Arnold comes knocking at her home, she reacts wit...

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• Grade Level: High School