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Norma Jean had waited for Leroy to get his act together for a long time, but Leroy her husband of eighteen years was only getting worst. Norma Jean Moffitt one of the main characters in the short story “Shiloh” written by, Bobbie Ann Mason, wanted more out of ....

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.... the way Leroy was thinking (page 48). Lets hide it where we do not have to deal with it. When Norma Jean’s mother told her the awful story and about a dachshund that had chewed a baby’s leg off. Norma Jean believed her mother was punishing her, because Mabel had caught her smoking the day before. Norma Jean looked “small and helpless” to the writer, but Leroy took up for her mother and told Norma Jean that “she really did not mean it” more than once (page 52). Leroy sided with Norma Jean’s mother. That made Leroy the enemy too, because if Norma Jean’s mother was the antagonist then Leroy was right there with her. Norma Jean is a ....