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This 14 page paper provides a comprehensive overview of the character of Dominick in Wally Lamb's novel I Know This Much Is True. This paper outines the basic elements of Dominick's character as they relate to stereotypical elements. Bibliography lists 19 sources.
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understand how the dramatic action takes place. Wally Lambs character Dominick, from I Know This Much Is True, is an individual who is very much a product of his
environment, and his reactions and sometimes stereotypical behaviors reflect his conditioning. In understanding the assertion that Dominicks characteristic behaviors are the result of conditioning, it is necessary to relate
his development as a character relative to emerging perspectives on sex-role development. I. A. 1) Description of the Character Lambs novel focuses on the central character, Dominick Birdsey,
a 40 year old man who struggles because of his mentally ill identical twin, Thomas. Dominick is a character with a definitive physical presence, whose likeness to his brother
is both his strength and his albatross. Dominicks physical character is often contrasted against his brother, Thomas, who is a much weaker, more sensitive and child-like character, even in
his adulthood. Though Dominick is a strong character with a sense of the need to protect his family, he also notes that one of his weaknesses is that
he sometimes hides and avoids the struggles around him. I. A. 2) Characters Family Dominicks family consists of an unknown father;
an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); and Concettina, Dominicks mother, a self-conscious woman who passes on some of her
resentment and guilt to her two children. Ray is a strong male figure, an ex-Navy man, who was present during much of Dominick and Thomas childhood, but whose
unforgiving temper and sense of position in the family served to subjugate both boys in the eyes of their mother. Dominicks identical twin brother, Thomas, is an individual who
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