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By way of example, I would like to compare and contrast Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, and Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception. With this in mind, I would like to explore the central conflict of family issues, specifically related to their father-son relationship. To put it differently, I would like to compare the upbringing between the two brothers. Geoffrey for example, lived with his father and essentially became the caretaker paying all the bills and going to school while his father ripped people off. Tobias Wolff on the other hand, lived with his mother while traveling to Utah to make their fortune by mining uranium. With regards to this, I also plan on contrasting how their experiences shaped their writing technique. Geoffrey tends
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