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Critic and Observer

 

 

Introduction

There are issues of social hierarchy in these tales. Also there are reminiscences of Andersen's life. Andersen had gone from a social class near the bottom to a person outside the class system.  He knew the lower classes and sometimes sympathized with them.  The upper classes are often, though not always, portrayed as hypocritical.  These stories have a lot of anger in them; anger with the social system and anger with the social hierarchy.  These tales have protagonists that distance themselves from others.  Sometimes that distance leads to insight, other times not.

Lecture

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ReadingS

1. "She Was No Good"
2. "Everything In Its Right Place"
3. "Grief"
4. "The Watchman of the Tower"
5. "A Drop of Water"
6. "In the Duckyard"
7. "A Happy Disposition"

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