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"Goodbye and Good Luck" - “The Loudest Voice"

● The following version of this book was used to create the lesson plan: Paley, Grace. The Collected Stories of Grace Paley. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

● “Goodbye and Good Luck” begins on page 3.

● The story opens with Aunt Rose telling her niece Lillie stories from her younger years.

● Rose worked at the Russian Art Theater of Second Avenue “where they played only the best Yiddish plays” (4).

● It was there that she met the actor Volodya Vlashkin.

● He invited her for tea, and after a moment of quiet, Rose told him how much she liked his work in a recent play, “The SeaGull,” which did not do well.

● The next play, “The Salesman from Istanbul” did much better.

● Vlashkin convinced Rose’s boss to give her a raise, and he allowed her to be part of a crowd scene on stage.

● Soon...

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