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This 3 page paper discusses the story The Problem of Old Harjo and how it relates to Hamlet. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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it," meaning that evil often lies in the way people think about situations rather than in the situation itself. This paper considers this in regard to the story The Problem
of Old Harjo and the play Hamlet. Discussion In Old Harjo, the problem of the title is that Harjo, a Native American, has two wives, and yet wants to be
received into the church (Oskison). The young woman who converted him, Miss Evans, is delighted with his conversion but faced with the problem that Christianity forbids such an arrangement. She
goes to talk to him and finds out that the three of them are perfectly happy living together, and have been doing so for many decades. When she tells him
that he must give up one of his wives to join the church, he believes her to be joking the idea is so absurd to him (Oskison). When she convinces
him that shes serious, he is hurt and ashamed, but still refuses to do as she asks. Meanwhile, Miss Evans realizes that all three of them are blissfully happy, that
the women are both in their 50s and not likely to die (thus solving the problem), and that the arrangement, though frowned on by the church, works for them. She
relents and tells him to remain just as he is, but that he still cannot join her church. The story ends with the dilemma unresolved since it cannot, in fact,
be resolved. Its made worse by the fact that Old Harjo wants to join the church and keeps attending, hoping that the institution will relent and welcome him. The story
ends with the question, "And meanwhile, what?" (Oskison). The idea that Old Harjo is living in sin is foundational to the beliefs of the sect to which Miss Evans belongs,
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