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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