John Mcphee's The Search For Marvin Gardens

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Monopoly, a well-known board game known and owned by many families across the globe was created by Charles B. Darrow in 1935. The game itself is actually a closely identical version of the once popular area known as, Atlantic City in New Jersey. Atlantic City consists os a strip of a lot of hotels and casinos “The Search for Marvin Gardens” by John McPhee is a short story about an international Monopoly tournament being played between the narrator and his opponent as well as a narrative of someone, the narrator, walking through Atlantic City. McPhee uses different writing techniques such as fast-paced sentences to emphasize on the idea of multiple rounds of short monopoly games being played, and absolute

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