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This 3 page paper discusses the novel “Kaaterskill Falls” by Allegra Goodman. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the Kirshners. It also discusses the "two worlds" that exist in Kaaterskill Falls. Discussion The Kirshners are outsiders for several reasons. The most obvious of course is that fact that
theyre Jewish, a fact which is actually the glue that holds their group together. They are a sect, a close-knit community, living together in the Washington Heights neighborhood in New
York City and spending summers in Kaaterskill Falls, with Jews from other areas of the country (Goodman). They are aware of the non-Jews, the "year-rounders," who live in the town
but the two cultures dont seem to interact to any great extent. There is no hostility, but the Kirshners seem to enjoy interacting with each other, particularly those people they
havent seen since the previous year, rather than with the gentiles. Nothing much happens in the novel: no one has an affair, no one is murdered, nothing blows up and
there are no car chases. Goodman is really more interested in examining the small doings of the members of this specific group than she is in putting her characters on
a larger stage. There are so many characters that its hard to say whether or not there really is a protagonist; if there is, its probably Elizabeth, a young mother
of six who, more than most, seems to have one foot in the strict Kirshner sect and the other in the outside world. She has an idea: she wants to
open a kosher store in the town to save people a long trip to get suitable food (Goodman). But that puts her squarely in opposition to Rav Kirshner, the rabbi
and leader of the sect, a strict Orthodox Jew who would never approve of a woman working: "The Rav doesnt really speak to women. Not women outside his family. Not
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