Title: Writing with style
Product review: Tobias Wolff used his own experiences at the Hill School to write a tersely crafted story about a youth at boarding school who seeks to excel at literature and win the school prize to meet Ernest Hemingway. He uses the foil to compare the protagonist with the Dean, both falsely taking credit. Wolff skillfully compares the main character with a brilliant young woman at a neighboring Girls' school. In fact, the latter are both hiding their Jewish heritage and middle class backgrounds in an upper class dominant atmosphere. Even though 50 years have passed since the setting of this book, human nature with similar tragic flaws persist today as well as the tendency toward veiled prejudices and punishments in privileged schools and clubs.
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