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Acceptance In Susan Beth Pfeffer's As It Is With Strangers
Seeking approval means that family must accept the family members as they are.
This is hard for someone who abandons their son for their own good. In the short story, “As It is with Strangers” author Susan Beth Pfeffer portrays the theme of acceptance through Linda experience of giving her son away for the best future.

The first way that Linda is showed acceptance by her son Jack. Tiffany describes their mother to Jack and the reader as a hard working mom, who gives it her all.Tiffany tells him that “I haven’t even been spanked since I was, she’s fine.”(Pfeffer 282).
This says to Jack that Tiffany has a good relationship with mom because she joked about her.

Second, Linda should know that jack would embrace her for what she did.
Linda did
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