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What Are The Similarities Between Geoffrey And Tobias Wolff

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To begin with, Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff’s lives were filled with misfortune, misery, and abuse. In addition to this, the brothers also went through their own form of hardship while living with their parents. Geoffrey, who lived with his father and Tobias, living with his mother. With this in mind, I will compare and contrast the central conflict behind their family issues and apply it to their work. In other words, compare Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff’s childhood and look at how it impacted them as adults. With regards to this, I will also look at how their childhood experiences influenced their writing style. For example, Geoffrey tends to write really long and dense paragraphs, while Tobias on the hand, typically keeps his shorter.
In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff took on the task of justifying the lies that created a barrier between family, friends, and the general public. His memories from his childhood are disturbing, jaw-dropping, and tangled with guilt. The memoir begins with Geoffrey Wolff learning of his father’s death in 1970. With this knowledge, Wolff revealed the enigma that was his father to …show more content…

A point often overlooked, is the drive from Florida to Utah, where the “car boiled over again,” just after Tobias and his mother crossed “the Continental Divide” (Wolff 3). In addition to this, while the two were waiting for the car to cool off, they heard from somewhere above them, “the bawling of an air horn” (3). The sound was coming from a big truck, and before Tobias and his mother knew it, the truck had run off the road and “fallen hundreds of feet through empty space” (4). Not to mention that, the man Rosemary and Tobias were fleeing from, caught up to them in Utah. Another key point is when he proposed to Rosemary, that’s when they hopped on a bus to Seattle where she met her second

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