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

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). Cool and damp because he has been out in the cool November evening, or is it the ... ................
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