The First Seven Years: Parental Consent
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Often, parents want their children’s lives to be better; this is the human nature of most parents. Feld, for instance, in the “The First Seven Years” by Bernard Malamud, worries much about trying to get his daughter, Miriam, supported & taken care of. Not only does he care so deeply for Miriam, but also the story speaks so clearly of ....
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.... his little fiasco of pride. "I thought maybe you will be interested sometime to meet a girl like this...” (61). Here, Feld is not only caring for his daughter, but he anxious for them to go out, in that he wants Miriam to have the best possible life. In doing so, he narrow-mindedly thinks none of Sobel, who is ready and willing to try a relationship with Miriam. Well, Max agrees, and Malamud begins to describe their date, shortly therea ....
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Number of words: 1017
Number of pages: 4 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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