Ignorance In The Great Gatsby

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In chapter 13, the twin boys had gone missing, search parties went to look for them, and Briony suspects what she “thinks” Robbie might do to her sister in the woods. Briony is determined, without any doubt, without any reconsideration and intention of looking at the situation in another perspective, believe that Robbie will be the man who rapes Lola. The theme of social class represents this quote. Ignorance is present in her behaviour here because she never really considered him as a family member but an outsider, and although he is a man she knew all her life and he could not have possibly committed such crime, she is not letting anything convince her. “villains were not announced with hisses and soliloquies, they did not come clocked in

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