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Do you think Jean's plan for the future makes sense? Why or why not?
As the play progresses, Jean begins to feel increasingly superior to Miss Julie. But for all that, he does not understand Miss Julie, and for this reason he does not anticipate how the woman whose money he needs could also be the biggest obstacle to his plans. Their dysfunctional relationship can probably not accomplish what he wants it to.
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In this section, both Jean and Miss Julie reveal that they are not quite who them seem to be to others. Why do people wear "masks" in this way?
Erving Goffman, a famous sociologist who studied the various "personas" people adopt over the course of...
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