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Heart-Shaped Box
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If one considers Heart-Shaped Box a contemporary Gothic story, what genre mainstays does Joe Hill modernize? Are there mainstays that he rejects?
Jude is critical of his assistant, Danny, going so far as to call him a “sycophantic little suck-ass” (8). Why does Jude keep him as an assistant? What does this decision say about Jude’s character early in the novel?
Why does Craddock first appear to Jude in the form of a suit? What is the symbolism of this suit?
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