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Chapters 1 and 2

· The following version of this story was used to create the guide: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Absolution." Amazon Kindle Edition. 2020.

· Chapter 1 opens on page 1.

· Father Schwartz weeps every night because “the afternoons have been heat and lengthy” and he was unable to “obtain an entire mystical union with our Lord” (1).

· At 4 p.m. a group of Swede women would pass his window.

· Their laughter made Father Schwartz “pray aloud for the twilight to come” (1) so he could no longer hear them.

· On Saturdays, after confession, he had to walk the streets at night.

· The scent of “cheap toilet soap” (2) made his heart ache.

· He tried walking across the street to avoid the scent, but it reached him anyway.

· The sight of the sun shining on the Dakota wheat from his window forced him to look down at the carpet inside, the sight of which brought to mind...

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