The Silver Pillow Themes & Social Concerns

This Study Guide consists of approximately 5 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Silver Pillow.

The Silver Pillow Themes & Social Concerns

This Study Guide consists of approximately 5 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Silver Pillow.
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The Silver Pillow Summary & Study Guide Description

The Silver Pillow Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

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At the age of seventy-one, "too dilapidated to be considered an active menace to society," Mrs. Ostrowsky has been paroled into the care of her son from the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at Northhampton.

She is a nasty person who believes that her killing of her husband was his fault. Disch uses the problems society has in warehousing and caring for the mentally ill as part of...

This section contains 484 words
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