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The Last Gentleman By Walker P
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In addition to finding meaning and purpose to his life, Will Barrett in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman must attribute some meaning to his father's suicide in order to resolve his ongoing grief. Suicide survivors experience dramatic shock and trauma as explained in a compendium of articles in L ....
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....and for there to be a distinction between a gentleman and others (Schwartz 117). Walker Percy's Ed Barrett states on the night of the suicide,"They've won" (Percy 330). The fornicators, bribers, takers of bribes, the hypocrites–all the enemies of lawyer Ed Barrett, refused to fight against him. They refused to fight him because they were no longer seen as bribers and fornicators, but as everyone else (Schwartz 118). The elder Barrett fails to connect meaningfully with anyone in his li.... |
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