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Defender Faith Philip Roth Pdf5/3/2021
Rather, our downfall gradually overtakes us such as consumerism: How in the hell did I get here.To be a defender of the faith, as the title suggests, means to show fairness, not favoritism.
Therefore, to give special rights to those who belong to our tribe is a compromise of our defense of our faith. Once he opens the door, by acquiescing to Grossbarts request, the boundary between them is vanished, and now Marx is vulnerable to the demon homunculus. Louis Cardinals, never fraternized with the other National League players when they played together on the All-Star Team because he knew he would pitch against them in games that counted. He wanted his competition to be scared of him, not familiar and comfortable. I dont go into my doctors office, sit on his desk, and call him by his first name in front of the patients. Ive moved out of the Respect Zone and into the Familiarity Zone. I assume were familiar (perhaps we play tennis together) and I can be chummy with my doctor. But in doing so in front of his patients, I violate the Respect Zone by moving into the Familiarity Zone. He says, Theres a goddam war on, and he wants a silver platter. Not only do they want special services and special kosher food, they want to make sure theyre given assurances that theyre not transferred to the battlefront in the Pacific. First he says he throws up; then he changes the story so that it is Halpern who is throwing up. And hes a whiner. We can conclude that this demon homunculus has become a disease to his unit. Barrett says to Grossbart, When you were in high school, Sergeant Marx was killing Germans. Who does more for the Jewsyou, by throwing up over a lousy piece of sausage, piece of first-cut meat, or Marx, by killing those Nazi bastards If I was a Jew, Grossbart, Id kiss the mans feet. He wants to know where the unit is going and if theres a chance he could go back to New York. He points his finger and hisses at Marx for reading the congressmans letter, which in fact he desired Marx to read because of the letters abject sycophantism directed toward Marx. We see narcissism and tribalism in his refusal to be like everyone else and cooperate in the war effort. Marx then discovers Grossbart pulled strings to get assigned to New Jersey.
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