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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Most written analysis of "Sredni Vashtar" accessible online agree that Conradin has a disturbing LackOfEmpathy and might be headed towards psychopathy, but [[https://interestingliterature.com/2017/04/a-summary-and-analysis-of-sakis-sredni-vashtar/ at least one commenter]] have argued that his non-reaction to [[spoiler:the death of his cousin]] is out of a childlike inability to understand death, coupled with a lack of affection between Conradin and Mrs. De Ropp. As the wish is never said aloud, Sredni Vashtar might have taken [[spoiler:"make my cousin stop tormenting me" and assumed it to be "kill my cousin so she can never torment me again"]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Most written analysis of "Sredni Vashtar" accessible online agree that Conradin has a disturbing LackOfEmpathy and might be headed towards psychopathy, but [[https://interestingliterature.com/2017/04/a-summary-and-analysis-of-sakis-sredni-vashtar/ at least one commenter]] have has argued that his non-reaction to [[spoiler:the death of his cousin]] is out of a childlike inability to understand death, coupled with a lack of affection between Conradin and Mrs. De Ropp. As the wish is never said aloud, Sredni Vashtar might have taken [[spoiler:"make my cousin stop tormenting me" and assumed it to be "kill my cousin so she can never torment me again"]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Most written analysis of "Sredni Vashtar" accessible online agree that Conradin has a disturbing LackOfEmpathy and might be headed towards psychopathy, but [[https://interestingliterature.com/2017/04/a-summary-and-analysis-of-sakis-sredni-vashtar/ at least one commenter]] have argued that his non-reaction to [[spoiler:the death of his cousin]] is out of a childlike inability to understand death, coupled with a lack of affection between Conradin and Mrs. De Ropp. As the wish is never said aloud, Sredni Vashtar might have taken [[spoiler:"make my cousin stop tormenting me" and assumed it to be "kill my cousin so she can never torment me again"]].
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** Anti-Semitism is treated as a joke in stories like "The Unrest-Cure" and "A Touch of Realism" (in the latter, it literally ''is'' a joke-- a rather obnoxious prank on a Jewish couple).
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** Anti-Semitism is treated as a joke in stories like "The Unrest-Cure" and "A Touch of Realism" (in the latter, it literally ''is'' a joke-- a rather obnoxious prank on a blameless Jewish couple).couple, who had been perfectly nice and generous to the people pulling the prank).
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* ValuesDissonance:
** Anti-Semitism is treated as a joke in stories like "The Unrest-Cure" and "A Touch of Realism" (in the latter, it literally ''is'' a joke-- a rather obnoxious prank on a Jewish couple).
** Several stories (in particular "Hermann the Irascible-- A Story of the Great Weep") play up the idea that women's suffrage was just too ridiculous a concept to be taken seriously.
** Anti-Semitism is treated as a joke in stories like "The Unrest-Cure" and "A Touch of Realism" (in the latter, it literally ''is'' a joke-- a rather obnoxious prank on a Jewish couple).
** Several stories (in particular "Hermann the Irascible-- A Story of the Great Weep") play up the idea that women's suffrage was just too ridiculous a concept to be taken seriously.
