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The Surgeon
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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination.
How does Dr. Anne Wiley’s unreliable first-person narration control the flow of information to manipulate readers’ sympathies and justify her ethically ambiguous choices?
How do the professional settings of the hospital and the State’s Attorney’s Office shape the moral compromises of Anne and Paula, symbolizing distinct forms of corruption, one rooted in personal trauma and the other in systemic ambition?
How do the novel’s central characters use the professional codes of medicine and law as both shields and weapons?
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