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No matter how hard we try, we will always be criticized, evaluated, judged. There are rules, trends, theories even rubrics that clearly indicate what we believe is to be right, wrong, acceptable, and what is frowned upon. Yet it is a combination of these criticisms to which the world generally adapts to. Lois Gould’s short story “X” combines all of these aspects, by portraying various criticism such as psychoanalytical, cultural, and Marxist, through a scientific machine called the Superpsychiamedicosocioculturometer. Difficult to pronounce, this wondrous and well-trusted scientific machine is able to unmask the truth and the faults of any individual. When examined, the tremendously long name of the machine can be divided up into sections, such as “psychia”, “socio”, and “culturo”. It is my belief that Gould was creating a metaphor for all of the things in our world that we use to determine what is right. “Psycia” symbolizes psychoanalysis, the mental aspect.......

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