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The Harp Carol Shield Summary
“The Harp”, main Character Analysis.
The main character in the story “The Harp” by Carol shield is undergoing her personal struggle of feeling isolated in her society, while trying to recover from an injury in the hospital. The main character was struck in the leg by a falling harp and was laying in the alone in the hospital. Despite feeling sad about sad about her injury, she seems just as upset about not being invited to the party that was cause of her injury. “weeping from the shock and the pain and the stupidity of people’s remarks, and also because I had not been invited to the accountants’ party”. She is being unreasonable with herself by wanting to go to a party that she has no business attending in the first place. The root cause

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