3 Matching Annotations
- Oct 2024
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I was afraid he would cut himself, but I said nothing.
I think this line sums up a lot of their relationship.
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"Don't you know what I mean?" he asked, softly.
I think that all throughout the story he's trying to get into Sonny's world. At first he doesn't want to be in his world, here he is trying to get in.
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These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities.
I think "the low ceiling of their actual possibilities" is a line that very strongly resonates throughout the entire story. Both brothers tried to break that ceiling.
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