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The Snake
Title: The Snake
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1010 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Snake
Patrick Finn
A short story by John Steinbeck, “The Snake” depicts the strange encounter between a man, Dr. Phillips, and a mysterious woman who arrives at his laboratory one night. The central theme of the tale revolves around Steinbeck’s interpretation of the contrast between men and women. It appears that his idea was: Men represent reason; Women represent nature. In the story we watch as the two opposing sides meet each other in the …showed first 75 words of 1010 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1010 total…s mine. Don’t take his poison. I want him to have it.” And as she went out “he heard her footsteps on the stairs, but could not hear her walk away on the pavement.”
For the rest of his life, Phillips was haunted by his experience. In a sense it disturb him that for all his education and experimenting he was never able to come as close to understanding nature as the woman did.
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