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“Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else’s version of themselves- to anyone else’s version!”

Really going back and forth. I’m feeling very comfortable in the Gravesend setting. I enjoy the characters. But, at the same time, it’s more of a “coziness” than it is a town populated by ‘real’ people. Sometimes it feels like Irving wants to write something complex, but often it’s so archetypal that he undercuts himself. Always knowing how a character will react makes them a character, not a person.