The Foster Portfolio (Kurt Vonnegut, 1951) Reread the line, "Look, I want you to handle my securities, not my life." Why is Herbert so defensive about his life and choices?

Principles:

´I think every man, for his own self-respect, should earn what he lives on.'

Explanation:

The sentence above from Herbert in the Foster Portfolio explains perfectly why Herbert is the way he is. Although by heritage he is a very rich man, he denies himself the pleasure of spending any money not made by himself, even when he is in a difficult financial situation.

So his rock-solid principles makes him defensive about his life; the heritage is somehow not connected with his meager life.

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.

in at least 200 words, explain how literary devices such as rhyme, meter, and symbolism convey meaning of this excerpt from a midsummer night's dream.

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