The Town, 310 (Event)

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Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sun, 2018-03-18 13:30
Text: 
The Town
Location: 
Courthouse and Square in The Town (Location)
Page Number: 
310
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
No no, no no, no no. He was wrong.
Page Event Ends: 
310
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
V.K. Ratliff
Characters Mentioned: 
Gavin Stevens
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Sunday, April 10, 1927 to Wednesday, April 20, 1927
Summary: 

Ratliff asserts that Gavin Stevens is "wrong" about Flem Snopes' intentions and actions, calling Gavin "a lawyer, and to a lawyer, if it aint complicated it dont matter whether it works or not because if it aint complicated up enough it aint right" (310).

Chronological Order: 
282.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Unnecessary Complexity, Lawyers Interpretation: Contested
Cultural Issues:
Law›Lawyers
Aesthetics:
Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Contested | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Unreliable narrator

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