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    A Study Guide for Paul Bowles's "Eye"
    A Study Guide for Paul Bowles's "Eye"
    A Study Guide for Paul Bowles's "Eye"
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    A Study Guide for Paul Bowles's "Eye"

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    A Study Guide for Paul Bowles's "Eye," 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
    ISBN9781535822978
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      A Study Guide for Paul Bowles's "Eye" - Gale

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      The Eye

      Paul Bowles

      1976

      Introduction

      Paul Bowles's short story The Eye, written in 1976, initially appeared in the Missouri Review in 1978 and was reprinted in the Best American Stories of 1979 and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1981). It is included in Bowles's story collection Midnight Mass (1981) and in the Stories of Paul Bowles (2001). Like many of Bowles's stories, The Eye concerns encounters between foreigners, in this case a Canadian man and the narrator, and Moroccan culture. Bowles uses the encounter to underscore the gap between the belief systems of the West and the Arab world, and to highlight the inscrutability of human existence. As an expatriate who spent most of his life in Tangier, Bowles is intimately familiar with his subject

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