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Front Matter and I

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: McCarthy, Cormac. Stella Maris. Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

· A clinical note appearing to be on facility letterhead opens the text of the novel.

· I begins with the protagonist’s interlocutor introducing himself and the conversation between the protagonist and the interlocutor getting underway.

· The interlocutor asks after the protagonist’s presence at the mental health facility, the protagonist noting, “I didn’t have anyplace else to go” (6).

· The protagonist remarks upon the circumstances of her departure from Italy, and she and her interlocutor confer about vices.

· Talk turns to the protagonist’s specific field of study and complaints about psychiatric programs.

· The interlocutor asks about the protagonist’s outside contacts, hearing about a former mathematician and his exploits in comparison to other mathematicians.

· The protagonist describes an institute in which she had...

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