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Liz Smith
Jan 17, 2018

It could be taken both ways: the author uses these two characters to indeed illustrate his point, but the young couple could have been any young couple in the early 1900s.

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Though it may be unlikely that they give away their two most prized possessions, the poverty they live in is extremely characteristic of the late 19th/early 20th century. You decide!

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