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Often, parents want their children’s lives to be better; this is the human nature of most parents. Feld, for instance, in the “The First Seven Years” by Bernard Malamud, worries much about trying to get his daughter, Miriam, supported & taken care of. Not ....

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.... Miriam and Max. “ I have a girl..." (61). Feld goes on to describe Miriam to Max, and then asks Max if he would like to meet her, giving Miriam a rather high status all during his little fiasco of pride. "I thought maybe you will be interested sometime to meet a girl like this...” (61). Here, Feld is not only caring for his daughter, but he anxious for them to go out, in that he wants Miriam to have the best possible life. In doing so, he narrow-mindedly thinks none of Sobel, who is ready and willing to try a relationship with Miriam. Well, Max agrees, and Malamud begins to describe their date, shortly thereafter. Paraphrased, he states t ....