Bargains with the devil go back a long way in Western culture.
Synthesizing the metaphor with real life — explaining why it matters
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Hansberry’s version, when Mr. Lindner makes his offer, he doesn’t demand Walter Lee’s soul; in fact, he doesn’t even know that he’s demanding it. He is, though.
So he doesn’t demand it, but he does? I’m very confused but that’s okay.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”
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we discuss poems, we refer to speakers rather than narrators, since poems do not inevitably involve the telling of a story but almost always have someone say something.
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And many speakers are obviously characters, so they are easily discerned as having lives of their own.
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From the first moment, Frost builds the poem around the difficulty of choice.
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grassy and wanted wear.”
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about the same”
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Frost said that he was inspired to write this poem by his neighbor and friend from the time when he resided in England, Edward Thomas, also a poet of importance.
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Thomas could never, according to Frost, make up his mind when presented with two alternatives.