SOURCE: “Persons,” in Short Stories for Study, Harvard University Press, 1953, pp. 272-77.
In the following study of “Nuns at Luncheon,” Kempton offers two interpretations of the satirical story: as a tale within an anecdote which is a fiction that ends as a polemic, and as a straightforward realistic piece that is no less satirical for being objectified and held in control.
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