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A 6 page paper which examines characters who are trapped. The books examined are Henry James’ Washington Square, Theodore Deiser’s Sister Carrie, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Toni Morrison’s Sula. No additional sources cited.
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another. Perhaps they are trapped by their socio-economic position in the world, or through their gender. There are many ways a character can be trapped, and many journeys a character
can take in an attempt to become free in their identity and their life. The following paper examines 4 different characters from different works of literature in relationship to their
position of entrapment and their journeys towards escape. The characters/works are Catherine in Henry James Washington Square, Carrie in Theodore Deisers Sister Carrie, Holly in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys
and Sula in Toni Morrisons Sula. Catherine in Washington Square In the story of Washington Square the reader is introduced to a young woman Catherine who has lost her
mother and is living with her father, a wealthy man. Her father does not necessarily seem to have any faith in her character or intelligence and so when she falls
in love with a man he knows to be penniless he essentially informs her that she cannot marry him. Catherine, a simply young woman, is still determined regardless of what
her father says. Even when he takes her on a very extended vacation, hoping she will forget her love interest, she does not give up and so her father ultimately
tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Catherine has not perhaps felt trapped,
despite the fact she has been trapped in her gender and her social position. With this ultimatum from her father she ignorantly chooses love, and then discovers that Morris does
not want her if she is penniless. This forever changes her and truly demonstrates her entrapment in her society and her family position. She gives up on men, and she
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