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Light, James (Jim), (includes photographs), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1956-1989

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Title Light, James (Jim), (includes photographs), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1956-1989

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n.d., 1956-1989

Language English

Subjects New Left

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4. A crippled mouse in a cage.
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The crippled mouse in the cage was used by the pimp, Oliver Finnerty, in A Walk On the Wild Side by Nelson Algren to show the whores in his charge what the results of resisting the "principles" of their profession would do to them. This is on Perdido St. in New Orleans. The crippled mouse in the cage is like those people who are above the prostitutes on the social →
5. A car that breaks down in the middle of a street.
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This is the car of Nat Moore in The Disinherited by Jack Conroy. This incident occurs near the close of the novel. It is significant because Larry Donovan is able to arouse the people standing around on the streets — i.e. the workers + the farmers — to unite to help Nat get his car going. This is the first time in the novel that the oppressed work together to try →
6. An old woman who vigorously and continually wields a broom and dust pan as if they were "weapons."
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This woman is George's Mother by Stephen Crane. She has only one reason for going on, that is to attack dirt wherever she finds it, either literal filth that accumulates in the house or the moral dirt that sticks to her son, George. She has a need for beauty in a world where there is only dirt. She lives in a poor section of town. She is destitute →
7. A man who loses his wife in childbirth.
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This man is Dr. Sloper in Washington Square by Henry James. Dr. Sloper hates the feminine mind which feeds on trivia. Being a society doctor, these are the women he deals with all the time. The only one who was different was his wife. She was beautiful and intelligent and he loved her deeply. Since she died in childbirth, he resented strongly the child who survived. The child is a girl, Catherine, who is plain, not clever, just good. He would rather she had been beautiful and clever like her mother rather than good. Thus, he spends his life sub- →

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 17 Folder 902

BibID nan

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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