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Is A Disability In The Short Story 'A Man Who Had No Eyes'?

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"The only disability in life is a bad attitude" (Hamilton). In the short story "A Man Who Had No Eyes" the author MacKinlay Kantor advocates the idea that disability is never a barrier to one's success. How people approach their disability decides their fate. Markwardt and Mr. Parsons are two men with similar complications yet with very different personalities. Initially, Markwardt is like any other person. He has two working eyes with a job, but after a horrendous incident that takes place at his work it leaves him and many others blind. After the incident, Markwardt becomes “a blind beggar, carrying the traditional battered cane" (328). The fact that Markwardt chooses to become a beggar indicates that he thinks of his disability as a barrier
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