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Kiernan expands some of the points made in his earlier essay, "Society and Nature in Such is Life", arguing that Tom Collins' responses to life are more important to the organic unity of the work than the concealed plots. Because this response is comic, Tom Collins' resilience is that of the clown.
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The Comic Vision of "Such is Life"
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- Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins 1897 single work novel
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