What I Lived For | Ideas for Group Discussion
With its graphic sexuality and blunt language, What I Lived For will be embarrassing for some people. Discussion will want to address the issue of whether Oates has been too sensational and too graphic or has achieved a literary aim beneath the novel's raw surface.
1. How does Oates's stream-of-consciousness technique allow you to sympathize or not sympathize with Corky? How well does she capture the feelings of a man in the throes of alcoholism?
2. How does Corky carry on his father's legacy? Is it an honorable one?
3. Does the novel create a fair portrait...
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