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CUP The Tortilla Curtain by Boyle Analysis

 

Read:

Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain, Part Three, Chapters 5-8 (pp. 309-355)

How does Boyle depict the lives of Candido and America in the final chapters of the novel? What have they become? How does Boyle depict Delaney Mossbacher at the end of the novel? What does he become? How did you interpret the final scene in the river? What do you think Boyle is trying to say? Why do you suppose Boyle ended the novel in this way?