Consider the main characters we encounter in Updike’s “A&P”, London’s “A Piece of Steak”, Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”, and the excerpts from Ellison’s Invisible Man and Tan’s Joy Luck Club. Which two of the characters intrigued you the most? Why? With which forms of nourishment or with which appetites are the characters associated and what larger questions about the human condition do these associations bring to our attention? What might be the significance here?
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