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A 3 page paper discussing identity in this work. In the age in which the term “cop out” was commonly heard, the quest to “find” oneself typically qualified as the ultimate “cop-out.” Too often, it involved resigning from life and abandoning convention in favor of drifting. Proulx’s Quoyle certainly could have taken that route. Rather, he had to carry on with life and so make a series of small discoveries that he would recognize only upon later reflection on the events of his life. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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age in which the term "cop out" was commonly heard, the quest to "find" oneself typically qualified as the ultimate "cop-out." Too often, it involved resigning from life and
abandoning convention in favor of drifting or flitting. Rarely did it involve using any resolution or determination to just keep on, plodding along with the hope that somehow, everything
would fall together to make sense, to complete a picture that the individual could perceive with absolute clarity. Proulxs Quoyle certainly could have
taken the former route. He certainly had identity issues to resolve, and the reader can believe that Quoyle may have been tempted to drop out altogether if not for
the need to support his daughters and to provide some semblance of normalcy for them. Quoyle did not have the luxury of being able to drift about "finding himself."
Rather, he had to carry on with life and so make a series of small discoveries that he would recognize only upon later reflection on the events of his
life. Building Identity The Shipping News is the story of Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, who finally does well by leaving behind the life
he has known in Mockingburg, New York, to return to his ancestral home. That home was on the coast of Newfoundland, to which he returned with his young daughters,
Bunny and Sunshine. The move back to Newfoundland reflects Quoyles efforts to make some sense of the events of his life. He
has been abandoned by everyone truly important to him, or so he believes. He has suffered through the death of his adulterous wife and the double suicide of his
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