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According to lines 68-79 ("These two brothers…short of felony"), it is most likely that the younger brother focused on the parts of the mother's story that


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No Okay AP English People Here we go Another one

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for you According to line sixty eight through seventy nine

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And from these two brothers on down there it is

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most likely that the younger brother focused on the parts

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of the mother story That what rights Let's go skim

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at sixty eight and thinking about the mother and all

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kinds of weird Oedipal complexes they could come up with

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here Well these two brothers have been up together in

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school Excellent being custom going home with that I'm hurting

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them Long counter father Seventeen days of poverty and cease

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uncle's important days of abalones recital produce a very good

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impression of two for welding Everyone's a timid already gleaned

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from there Nothing for warning station on the great world

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ahead of the quite routine of a country life Okay

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enough of that Well let's think about this You know

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we're thinking aloud Younger brother wants toe hangout in the

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hayfields Wake up early on Saturdays in milk cows The

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quiet routine of a country life Sounds lovely doesn't it

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He feels this way because growing up all he heard

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was long accounts of his father's sufferings in his days

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of poverty and of their deceased uncle's importance in his

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days of affluence Well while these stories compelled the older

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brother Ralph Ralph how'd you name your kid after vomit

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Strive to make money while the younger decided to shun

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the great world suggesting that he focused on the negative

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parts of the mother's accounts So the answer here is

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D at Highland the corruptive power of wealth Oh those

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rich people They're just so evil Well okay Loser bowl

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The younger brother doesn't want to live like the uncle

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and try to make stacks and stacks of sleeper So

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he probably didn't focus on how rich the Uncle Wass

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would've or how much the inheritance changed his father be

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wealth Well well likewise The financial details of the fortune

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were probably of no interest to the younger brother So

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you would see And neither was a reminder of how

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comfortable there life was now So get rid of E

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that spoiled rich children criticizing others Go figure Don't all

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those people go to Yale now Maybe not

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