perhaps, confront his or her own blemishes. Such deep psychological insight, coupled with the ability to provoke a thoughtful internal dialogue within the reader, is a mark of literary greatness of the highest order. For that reason alone, the novel richly deserves its exalted position in the American literary canon.
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