Are Boys Really Proud To Have The Seamstress

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During the movies, The Narrator said: “ Of all the girls in the audience, and there were at least two thousand, she was certainly the prettiest. A sense of masculine pride stirred deep inside us, surrounded as we were by the jealous looks of the other men in the crowd” (82). The boys see the Seamstress as some kind of possession to show off. The boys are really proud to have The Seamstress with them, and they enjoy the envies coming from the other men. It is almost like a kind of admiration for them, the admiration of them getting a girl that pretty.

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