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The Member Of The Wedding

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is

the story of an adolescent girl who triumphs over loneliness

and gains maturity through an identity that she creates for

herself in her mind. It is with this guise that twelve year old

Frankie Addams begins to feel confident about herself and

life. The author seems to indicate that one can feel good

about oneself through positive thinking regardless of reality.

The novel teaches that one's destiny is a self-fulfilled

prophesy, seeing one's self in a certain light oftentimes

creates an environment where one might become that which

one would like to be. The world begins to look new and

beautiful to Frankie when her older brother Jarvis returns

from Alaska with his bride-to-be, Janice. The once clumsy

Frankie, forlorn and lonely, feeling that she "was a member

of nothing in the world" now decides that she is going to be

"the member of the wedding." Frankie truly believes that she

is going to be an integral part of her......


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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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