eng 215 Fall 2017

Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text. Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:  “ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1). “”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22). ”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48). “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest peopl...

Link to the story: http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html Outside Sources: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00144940.1990.9934031 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-0773-3_8?LI=true http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8289335/Babylon-Revisited-When-the-money-runs-out.html http://iws2.collin.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesbabylon.htm http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/f-scott-fitzgeralds-babylon-revisited-and-the-lost-decade-damaged-men-and-fractured-pasts/ https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/bruce.brogdon/engl1301/oral-reports/short-story-criticism/babylon-revisited-a-story-of-the-exiles-return/view http://kb.gcsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=thecorinthian http://libguides.fau.edu/c.php?g=325462&p=2181967 Themes found in the story: Facing the consequences of one’s actions The struggle to change Symbols found in the story: Honoria’s doll Snow This link has some background information ...

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