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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5   AIL 0411 short lesson, about 20 seconds

The Charge Against Her

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The idea

His grievance is that she thanked men. He says she thanked men, good, but thanked somehow as if she ranked his gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift. The offence is that her courtesy was not reserved for him alone.

In practice

Her offence was ordinary courtesy.

Where people slip

Nothing he reports is misconduct.

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