Screwtape Letters Summary

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In the Seventeenth Letter of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, Screwtape starts to explain to Wormwood the fallacy of Gluttony when he is tempting his patients. Gluttony has the meaning to be overindulged in food and drinks. The gluttony of delicacy’s should be considered because people do not always car about how much food but, care about if it is properly spiced, overcooked, or if it looks pleasing to the eye. Screwtape provides a great example of Gluttony when he is talking about the patient's mother in which she is enslaved to gluttony of delicacy. The reason for this is when she was eating at a restaurant she sends her food back to the kitchen because she thinks it was to much food and demands the portion to be a forth of the original

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