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Frank Conroy has written only three books. Midair (1985) is a collection of eight short stories dealing with the same themes of growing up and appearances that Stop-Time and Body and Soul explore.

Claude Rawlings bears a striking resemblance to Pip in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1860–61). Both rise from abject, lonely beginnings to positions of prominence. The objects of their desire, Estella and Catherine, are both aloof, almost cruel, patricians.

The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays an outsider who...

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