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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke do
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sure Brought to you by pillows We knew a guy
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who slept with his head under a pillow And when
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he woke up fairies had taken all his teeth All
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right check the following passage Yeah happy families all alike
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were skimming way love this ready guys The author describes
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stepan's dream and his recollection of his current troubles for
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the purposes of what And hear the pendulum giving Oh
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poor step on Well we can almost picture and sleeping
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on the couch dreaming a happy dream then waken up
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and remembering that he's in big trouble with his wife
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So why does the narrator bother to tell us about
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stepan's dream bubble being burst Wellchoice a sort of makes
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sense but we don't see stepan's thoughts per se We
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do see his dream in his reflection on that dream
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but we don't get to eavesdrop on too many things
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That step on is actually thinking if we peeked in
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when stepan was thinking about that french nanny well this
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book might be filed in a totally different section We're
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going to say nada choice beat although the dream does
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Seem to be a glimpse into stepan's carefree life before
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the affair Well that's not what the author is trying
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to show us And he is a definite no Just
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because stepan has a dream about a fancy party doesn't
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mean that he has an unrealistic attitude about life even
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though he does seem a little too excited about those
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glass tables A hand option C is the best answer
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The author is setting up a contrast between the current
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reality of stefan's messed up marriage and a happy dream
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of a fancy party with glass tables glass tables for
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those who loved eat dinner while staring at each other's 00:01:37.306 --> [endTime] feet
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