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The books "Queen of Diamonds" and "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters" are very similiar in that they both portrait the disadvantage of a pessimistic view on life. "Queen of Diamonds" is a story about a lady named Christine who is very down on life and wastes her ....

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.... who were sick all the time, but she was someone who had gone out a lot of the time with her friends and drank. The drinking was the reason that she was in the hospital. It never once showed Christine as being happy, she was always in a bad mood, and never really seemed to be pleased with anything. Towards the end of the book we find out that Christine is going to kill herself. The reason for which she decides to take her own life is that there is nothing for her to live for, nothing that she had made for herself. Christine had done nothing in her life time worth enough to live for. We also see the picture in Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters. ....