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Around what year, would you say, was it that courtesy and winning wayswent out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste?
 
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What is the significance of the storys title?
 
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  • It is rebellious adolescence in general that Boyle describes in his opening paragraph; but hes also talking about the late 1960s, when adolescents were in plentiful supply, bad behavior was much admired, and courtesy and winning ways went out of style. In 1967, when the American attack on Khe Sanh (mentioned in paragraph 7) took place, Boyle himself was nineteen years old. We can guess thats the year in which Greasy Lake is set. But the epigraph and the storys title come from that bard of a slightly later era, Bruce Springsteen, whose first album appeared in 1973.



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  • Hurstons title describes Delias existence. Trapped in a brutal, loveless marriage and getting no help from Sykes in supporting the two of them, Delia has almost nothing in her life except work. Defending herself against Sykess threats, she summarizes her life as Sweat, sweat, sweat Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat The title also suggests why Delia is deaf to Sykess pleas at the end of the story: love and compassion have been sweated out of her.






 

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