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        <title><![CDATA[Judging from the atmosphere and details in the story, you can tell that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Judging from the atmosphere and details in the story, you can tell that the setting is somewhere in the 60's or 70's. What I would call historical about that is that here we are in 2009 and the feelings of emptiness, the anxiety to connect, and the sense of loneliness that the main character experiences can be easily identified and re-connected to this time and age.  Furthermore, her sexual obsession and what comes as a result of it denotes a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:16:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the historical significance to "Lust" by Susan Minot?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the historical significance to "Lust" by Susan Minot?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:29:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I disagree with the above answer. I am studying this very short story in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I disagree with the above answer. I am studying this very short story in my college course (I already have my undergrad degree). The theme, as with all of Minot's short stories, is one of human beings seeking love and fulfillment (which seems out of grasp) and filling the never-ending void with that which is superficial, hurtful and empty. In the beginning, thru the author's more cheeful vocab and short sentences, we see that the character...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:27:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Susan Minot's story &quot;Lust&quot; is set in the late 1960s and early...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Susan Minot's story &quot;Lust&quot; is set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when young people, especially women, were experimenting with and experiencing more and more personal freedoms. They were rebelling against the conservative, &quot;square&quot; mores of their parents.The theme of this story might be expressed as the search for self-awareness. The narrator struggles with how to fit in with her sexually active peers. Another theme...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:24:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the theme of Susan Minot's story &quot;Lust&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the theme of Susan Minot's story &quot;Lust&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 06:18:34 PST</pubDate>
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