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"A White Heron" and "The Beast in the Jungle": A Comparison and Contrast Comparing and contrasting Jewett's Sylvy in "A White Heron" with May Bartram of James's "The Beast in the Jungle" proves to be an interesting task. How can two such unlike characters be so a ....

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.... Not used to interacting with many people, the reader can see it would have been a difficult situation for her to handle any other way. Rather, it handled her. The grandmother was most receptive and hospitable. Over the course of the short stay, Sylvy realized many things. The hunter offered money in exchange for help in finding the heron's nest. Not only was his offer tempting and attractive, but a curiosity awakened in her as he was most attractive as well. She was somewhat intrigued and in a fog, taken each moment and each step one at a time, carefully, slowly. Sylvy seems to come to her senses in the twelfth hour when she climbs high into ....