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    A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day"
    A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day"
    A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day"
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    A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day"

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    A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535823678
    A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day"

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      A Study Guide for Frank Sargeson's "A Frank Sargeson's Great Day" - Gale

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      A Great Day

      Frank Sargeson

      1940

      Introduction

      A Great Day, a short story by New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, was first published in Sargeson's collection of stories A Man and His Wife (Christchurch, New Zealand, 1940). It was reprinted in Sargeson's Collected Stories in 1964 (reprinted, 1965).

      Sargeson is one of New Zealand's best-known writers. Beginning in the 1930s, he was instrumental in creating a genuine New Zealand literature that was not derived from British or American models. He deliberately avoided using literary English, and most of his stories, which are often told in the first person, sound like an ordinary person speaking naturally.

      A Great Day is one of Sargeson's most admired stories. This short tale of an early morning fishing trip undertaken by two friends culminates in a shocking, and surprising, act of violence and betrayal. The story illustrates the spare, compressed nature of Sargeson's art (almost all his stories are very short), as well as his use of informal, colloquial language and working-class characters. In A Great Day, Sargeson avoids any overt moralizing and leaves the story to speak for itself, inserting many subtle clues within the text to enable the reader to make sense of the final incident.

      Author Biography

      Frank Sargeson was born on March 23, 1903, in Hamilton, New Zealand. His father was a storekeeper and later the town clerk, and Frank was the second of his four children. After leaving school, Sargeson worked in a Hamilton law office and studied for his law degree. In 1925, he left home for Auckland, where he lived in a small house owned by his father in Takapuna, and the

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