Commiseration

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Definition taken from "commiseration". Oxford Dictionaries. April 2010. Oxford Dictionaries. April 2010. Oxford University Press. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/commiseration?region=us (accessed October 09, 2011). 1) Rose for Emily - "That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her....At last they could pit Miss Emily"
 * D** **efinition::** Sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; compassion
 * Origin::** Late 15th century, from the Latin //accumulat-//
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 * Examples** from text:
 * At time of grief, suffering and loss for Emily, the townspeople shift from spitefulness, possible jealously even to commiseration between from the townspeople for Miss Emily. This employment of sympathy among characters, especially when the townspeople finally enter Miss Emily's house for the funeral and they discover Homer's body evokes the same reaction for the reader.

2) Hands - "For twenty years Aldoph Meyers had lived alone in Winesburg..." Hands tells the story of a man who was drove out of town after a misunderstanding surrounding an incident between a young man. By focusing on his embarassment of his hands and subsequential insecurity regarding them and his seclusion, Anderson makes the reader feel sorry for Biddlebaum.

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