Noel Perrin Androgynous Man

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In “Androgynous Man” by Noel Perrin I find the development to the resolution to be very circular in thought and process.What I mean by this is the whole story has a body passage that show no progression, it’s very much like my grandfather rambling about the good ole days, when he says, “(A few years after that summer, I was leading troops in combat and, unfashionable as it now is to admit this, having a very good time. War is exciting. What a pity the 20th century went and spoiled it with high-tech weapons.)(Perrin 243).” This literally has no reason to be in the story at all except to give the effect of a wandering mind. The sentence structure I would say is a medium length with some more complex structures to them making it flow more like

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