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The best paper I ever wrote in college was for an English course, on the novel Sister Carrie. I researched the way individuals inhabited social spheres, the way space was used in the novel to represent that, and the way spacial apertures (windows, doors) were used to demonstrate characters looking at another sphere from their own. For a lot of the novel, the main character spends time looking out the bedroom from her squalid bedroom onto the opulence of the people in the street below, for instance.
Brilliant paper. I got an A on it, and the prof asked for a copy for her files.
Thing is, I never read the novel. I picked up all that stuff from class discussions.
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