Playing Cards
Throughout the novel, playing cards symbolize the tension between external circumstance on the one hand and individual choice on the other hand. The main character, Ed Kennedy, mysteriously receives playing cards in the mail…
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The File
At the end of the novel, the man who has been sending Ed on his missions gives Ed a file detailing every step of Ed’s own life for the past year, right down to the…
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