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Understanding Estelle in "Rape Fantasies" by Margaret Atwood

This literary analysis of Margaret Atwood's short story "Rape Fantasies" examines how Atwood familiarizes the reader with narrator Estelle's personality and background through dialogue and the characters' storytelling. The student explains that Atwood uses a contentious subject to show Estelle as a rounded character with both good qualities and flaws.
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Bridget's feedback:

"This is a strong essay with a good eye for nuance and control of the text. You're ready to move into a final draft with a bit of polishing up. These tasks will include properly formatting the title of the story ("Rape Fantasies"), fixing up some punctuation around the in-text citations, and correctly formatting the block quotes, as well as proofreading to catch occasional errors (typos, etc.). I also encourage you to check over your paragraphing, including the occasional very short paragraphs, as well as the paragraph boundaries; for example, "She mentions growing up as a Catholic girl..." and the movement into the next paragraph is a little blurred. Would that sentence, with some revision, work better in the next paragraph? Or, perhaps some further transitional language might be incorporated into the existing setup.

As a final note, I encourage you to experiment with a few other endings so as to avoid finishing up on a paraphrase/summary of a source, which can deflate the argumentation at the last moment."

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