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| Homecoming - Close Reading
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| 1. Historical situation/Significance of set/Concept of home
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| 2. Distrust of language/Significance of pauses and subtext
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| 3. Family relationships/Description of characters
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| 4. Significance of the physical (tableau, relationships)
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| 5. Principle of uncertainty/Purposeful perversity, confusion, and misleading/Interior drama
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| 6. Allegory of human condition
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| - 1) Post WWII reference: p. 30, 48, 55, 67 (set in the 60s)
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| - p. 2: wall/mother - loss of conscience with mother's death
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| - p. 65: close family - UK/US
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| - p. 15-16: absences in family/home
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| - 2) p. 8-9: pauses/waiting
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| - p. 9-10: 3rd person
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| - p. 21: Teddy's self-absorption
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| - p. 58: "madam"
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| - p. 30-31, 33
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| - p. 75: Biblicial (Ruth/Jesse)
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| - p. 80: Teddy's exile
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| - 6) Animal needs
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| - Abusive power
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| - Cycle of life: p. 39 vs. p. 64
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