The Elusive Form: The Use Of Female Characters In "Naked Nude"
Beginning of paper
Thesis and Outline:
Thesis: In his picturesque short story, "The Naked Nude", Bernard Malamud uses
the female characters to develop, enact, and resolve Fidelman's epiphany and to
bring about the protagonist's final, artistic self-understanding.
I. Introductory paragraph--statement of thesis.
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Middle of paper
.... of female characters VII. Conclusion and restatement of
thesis.
Bernard Malamud, a leading contemporary Jewish author, skirts between
fantasy and reality in his almost allegorical short fiction, teaching the reader
a lesson through coinciding elements of beauty and comedy. Venturing away from
his usual, inner-city Jewish element, Malamud tackles new challenges of subject
and setting in his novelistic collection of short stories, Pictures of Fidelman .
Malamud develops his pr ....
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