Image from the poster of the 1946 film version of
Richard Dana's 1840 memoir,
Two Years Before the Mast
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English 3318 students:
Sometime this week before midnight on Saturday, September 3, please submit a comment of approximately 250 words about the pragmatic moral decision making of the narrator (aka the Contributor) of William Dean Howells’s “A Romance of Real Life:” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.78035620&view=1up&seq=317
In your comment, please quote at least twice from the story, as you explain how the narrator implicitly critiques how the Contributor character in the story reacts with too much sentimentality to Jonathan Tinker and how the Contributor realizes his mistake when he finds Julia Tinker. (As you can see from the image above, the sailor ideal of American masculinity, showcased in the book by Richard Dana that the Contributor has in mind when he thinks about Tinker's identity, has continued to be a sentimental and melodramatic stock character in American popular culture.)
After you submit your comment, please reply in about fifty words to at least one of the other students' comments.
To submit a comment, just click on the comments link below this post, and to reply, click on the link for replying below the comment you would like to respond to.
You should compose your comment and reply in a separate document and then copy and paste them into the text boxes. Then, if you have any problem with your submissions, you can try again. And if you still have trouble after a few tries, you can send me your comment and reply by email (linda.kornasky@angelo.edu), and I will submit them for you.
Thank you,
Dr. K
