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A 5 page paper which examines reconciliation with struggles as seen in Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle and Mary Antin’s The Promised Land. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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hard, and even horrific for some in some situations, human beings seem to often possess the ability to reconcile trauma, exile, and disappointment. This does not mean that all people
can reconcile struggles and difficulties, for some people simply revert inside, develop psychological or physical problems and just bury their inability to reconcile issues. As one author notes, "survivors are
tormented by their failure and by their loss" when faced with horrific events, but they do survive (Hass). In the end, however, it seems that human beings will find a
way to deal with even the most horrific of experiences in order to simply survive. This perspective is examined as it involves elements of reconciliation in the works Tell Me
a Riddle by Tillie Olsen and The Promised Land by Mary Antin. The paper examines each separately and then discusses them, comparing and contrasting, together. Reconciliation: Tell Me
a Riddle In Tillie Olsens short story, or novella, Tell Me a Riddle the characters are an elderly man and woman who are now experiencing their lives without children
and without those responsibilities. There is a great conflict between them as the old ties of childrearing are gone and they are now in a whole new world together, yet
also very separate. The primary struggle in this story involves the slow decline of the wife who is dying. Olsen, in this particular story, offers the characters as individuals
who have essentially struggled and perhaps, in the end, not truly reconciled it would seem. The story begins with the following, which describes the foundation of the problem or the
issues of trauma, exile and disappointment: "For forty-seven years they had been married. How deep back the stubborn, gnarled roots of the quarrel reached, no one could say --
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