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Ethical Decisions In 'On The Western Circuit'

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One literary text that we read throughout this semester that led to consequences that had lessons about making ethical decisions that I choose is “On the Western Circuit” this text has many lessons that someone today can relate to. This text taught me my own lesson, “On the Western Circuit” is the short story about the three main characters Anna, Edith, and Charles and the consequences of each character’s actions. Charles and Anna fall quickly in love, Charles courts the young Anna, she comes come from nothing and starts working for Edith. During Anna and Charles courtship, he starts writing her letters, and Anna soon confesses to Edith that she doesn’t how to read and write, Edith agrees to read and write to Charles for Anna. In, the text …show more content…

Charles is being fooled by Edith and Anna, Anna soon becomes pregnant with Charles child. Charles is thinking that these letters are Anna own words and thoughts. Charles offers to marry Anna after finding out that she is with a child. After she accepts his marriage, she confesses to Charles that Edith had written the letters and she herself can't read or write, he becomes angry and feels mislead. The results of “On the Western Circuit” is no one is to blame but themselves, Charles has been played by both women and really his love is for Edith, but he is trapped with Anna from. Edith soon sees that even though she is married to a nice man, she is not happy and loves Charles, but can never be with him due to Anna. Charles seduces a young girl without really knowing who she is, Anna shouldn’t have allowed this to happen and told Charles early on she didn’t know how to read and write. Edith should have never written the letters and deceived Charles. This leads all the characters to feel trapped where they are all left to suffer from the actions of their

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