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Essay Archive - The Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in "Naked Nude"
The Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in "Naked Nude"
Thesis: In his picturesque short story, "The Naked Nude", Bernard Malamud uses
the female characters to develop, enact, and resolve Fidelman's epiphany and to
bring about the protagonist's final, artistic self-understanding.
I. Introductory paragraph--statement of thesis.
II. The prostitutes
A. in contrast to Fidelman's initial idea of the artistic nude
B. "maybe too many naked women around made it impossible to
draw a nude"--establish basis of conflict within Fidelman III.
Teresa
A. flat, ....
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