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O'Connor, A Stroke of Good Fortune: The goat and the children

O'Connor, ''A Stroke of Good Fortune'' -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)

He looked like a goat. ... In the mornings he studied and in the afternoons, he walked up and down the sidewalks, stopping children and asking them questions.

This passage reminded me of e.e. cummings "in Just-," a poem in which a goat-footed "balloon man" lures children to him. The goat is often considered a devilish symbol in criticism.

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That is interesting to know Chris...This could give the older man a new "stalkish, evilness" to him that I did not realize before. I just saw the old man as a symbol of intellegence and he reminded me of my grandfather who is always filling his grandchildrens heads with knowledge. Cool thought.

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