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The Good Girls In Edgar Allan Poe's Work

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When Edgar exclaims, “Women have been angels of mercy while men have sat at the edges and mocked!”, he is referring to how he has been treated by the men and the women in his life, he feels this way because most of the men have abandoned him while the girls are there until they die and become angels, and this affected his writing because he began to portray the men as bad guys and the women are the good girls. The first example is when the text proposes, “He and Frances seemed to form a bond, but he never quite meshed with John.” (Edgar A. Poe Biography 1). This experience of meshing with Frances Allan gave Edgar the belief that girls were the good girls and his experience of not meshing with John Allan gave him the belief that guys were bad
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