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Hands: Paranoia


Pierce
English 102 b
Jan. 28, 1997

It seems that in all three of these works there is a sense of paranoia.
In "Hands" a man is fearful of what might happen if he continues to do as he has
done in the past, touch people. A terrible fear of what a small touch could
lead to. In the story "Eveline" a young woman is confused about what to do with
her life. Whether to go with a man she thinks she loves or stay with her father.
In the poem "Summer Solstice, New York City" This man is made crazy and
paranoid because of something. That something has driven this man to the point
of casting his body over the edge of a building.
Straight from the text of Hands, a story about a man and his paranoia of
his own hands. An example of Wing Biddlebaums fear. "Wing Biddlebaum forever
frightened and beset by a ghostly band of doubts."(p. 882) Adolf Myers, or Wing,
as the town people called him, was a dreamer, he wanted others to dream......

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