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Jolly McJollyson
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Jolly McJollyson
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05/31/2007 2:44 am
You should be unsure as to why. Joseph wants to fit a certain mold of cliches. Look at him needing to wake up with an alarm buzz, for example. He has a strong attraction to cliche and predictability. The nagging wife is just an archetype he can't let go. She's in the story to show that things like the monomyth and archetypes just don't hold up in reality. Nothing can be reduced to a mere series of steps in the hero's journey. That's why I'm not sure if I should end it here or have Joe buy the carrots.
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