Analysis of 'Where Is Here?' by Joyce Carol Oates.docx

To which their guest replies, “Oh, no, not at all…..We’ve all been dead--they’ve. all been dead--a long time” (329). With one contraction--we’ve--the narrator hints at the truth: The visitor is a ghost, a fact that is further substantiated when Oates describes the stranger’s handshake as “cool and damp and tentative” (326). ................
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