Question

In your Discussion post, identify in one of the three assigned stories, (Cofer, Marquez, and Hemingway), a situation in which two or more cultural or social forces or ideas come into opposition, creating a tension important to the overall story. Clearly identify the two opposed forces or ideas, and then examine the implications of that opposition for the work as a whole.

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Answer:Irecognized him immediately, passing with his wife Mary Welsh on the Boulevard St. Michel in Paris one rainy spring day in 1957. He walked on the other side of the street, in the direction of the Luxembourg Gardens, wearing a very worn pair of cowboy pants, a plaid shirt and a ballplayer's cap. The only thing that didn't look as if it belonged to him was a pair of metal-rimmed glasses, tiny and round, which gave him a premature grandfatherly air. He had turned 59, and he was large and almost too visible,but he didn't give the impression of brutal strength that he undoubtedly wished to, because his hips were narrow and his legs looked a little emaciated above his coarse lumberjack shoes. He looked so alive amid the secondhand bookstalls and the youthful torrent from the Sorbonne that it was impossible to imagine he had but four years left to live.

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