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Aunt Florrie Study Guide

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by Robert Westall
About 9 pages (2,571 words)
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Social Sensitivity

The narrator of "Aunt Florrie" seems to be a snob and a member of a snobbish family; they dislike the company of poor relatives. This makes them less than endearing; if fact, they almost deserve the horrible Aunt Florrie. One effect of making the family unpleasant, at least for an American audience, is to make the bad events that befall them seem deserved and thus somewhat more tolerable than they would be if the family were enlightened enough to care for the needy.

The family's.....

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Aunt Florrie from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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