1. Sinister Personas in Works of Carol Ann Duffy
Likewise, Duffy presents a rather lonely yet manipulative character in the poem "Stealing", who often purloins for the thrill of watching inferior beings suffer, although stealing items which have no use to him. ... Furthermore the unnamed 'squash(es) a fly' by using his 'thumb', which indicates to the reader the unnamed brutally murders the fly and not caring how to kills it with but his thumb. ... Likewise, the unnamed is believed to have purloins items of no use, it states that he had steals 'a guitar and thought' he 'might learn to play...
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