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Do you think Fern is a sympathetic character? Maxwell notes, "Other people see that [she]...perhaps expects more of life than is reasonable" (p. 71). Do you agree with this observation? What exactly are reasonable expectations in life?

As Linda Richman would say, I'll give you a topic:

"What we, or at any rate what I , refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw." (p. 27)

Discuss.

(Afterwards feel free to discuss one of Linda's actual topics? The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was neither Mormon nor a tabernacle nor a choir. Discuss.)