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time while the others drop by the wayside because the general reader is more likely to have also spent time in a lonely bar than to have been set adrift in a boat or to have been hanged. The typicality of the story does not make it more or less effective; it is the recognizability of characters and the typicality of their inner life that makes the difference.

Consider the nature of the main character in the story by Bierce. The story begins with a man about to be hanged. The point of view throughout the story is that of this ma

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