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This 4 page paper discusses five short stories and the way in which their authors contrast the romantic ideal people have of themselves with their real personalities and the situations in which they find themselves. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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examines five literary works and discusses how the people in them differ in reality from the image they have of themselves. Discussion In Mark Twains story "The Man That Corrupted
Hadleyburg," we are given a hilarious and yet touching portrait of a town that prides itself on its honesty. But this attitude doesnt stand up to a moments close examination,
as we find out. Someone passing through Hadleyburg was badly treated by the citizens, and decided to get even (Twain, 2006). So he takes a sack of gold into the
town and leaves it with Mrs. Richards, saying that it should go to the person who helped him on an earlier visit, but whose name he cannot remember (Twain, 2006).
He leaves, and soon after a letter comes to the Richards giving them the "secret" words by which they can claim the money (Twain, 2006). However, the prankster has sent
the same letter to all the leading families in town, so that at a town meeting 18 people stand up and claim the treasure, all of them having written identical
letters using the phrase the prankster provided (Twain, 2006). They are thus all exposed as frauds; all except the Richards (Twain, 2006). Though they wrote a letter as well, Burgess,
a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convulsed with hysterics by the
trick which exposes the 18 for the greedy, dishonest men they are; then the sack (which is full of gold-painted lead) is auctioned off-and the money given to the Richards
(Twain, 2006). But they are so full of their own guilt, mostly because they were not found out, and so fearful that Burgess will expose them, that they soon sicken
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