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An American Tragedy Volume 1 Book 2 Chapter VI
In which young Clyde Griffiths settles into a modest room in a bustling milltown, observing with mixed feelings the starkly different lives and ambitions of its working-class inhabitants, while quietly reflecting on his connections and social place. Meanwhile, his cousin Gilbert offers a critical and conventional view of him, as Clyde embarks on his tentative and uneasy introduction to the factory world, marked by suspicion and subtle distinctions of class and status.
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