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I think we can feel some sympathy for Pinkie because everything in his life was so negative and he just was mentally and emotionally paralyzed. Greene uses a motif of "the stirrup and the ground" throughout the book to demonstrate Pinkie's...
This is only a short-answer space. I can make a general comment. As a gangster, Pinkie assumes that the only standard by which he will be judged is his toughness, understood as his willingness to engage in violence. This presumably would allow...
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