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“The aunt thinks you killed your mother.”
Reading Room · Plain English analysis
Stephen's thoughts crash back into the deepest wound in the book: his refusal to kneel and pray at his dying mother's bedside, and the family's belief—especially Aunt Sara's—that this refusal amounted to killing her. Almost as soon as the accusation
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