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In the Human Comedy by William Saroyan, Mrs. Macauley, an intelligent mother of four in Ithaca, California, states, “If a man has not wept at the world’s pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world.”(p.131) People are ....

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.... and there was a war going on so he thought it didn’t matter if he or Mr. Spangler died in the holdup. He believed that stealing the money and causing Mr. Spangler pain would relieve the pain of all his mistakes, but all it would really do is cause more pain in himself and others. Mr. Strickman’s actions are that of an evil man but “I really don’t believe that the evil know they are evil.”(p.131) People who can recognize pain but only in themselves are selfish and self absorbed. Pain is every where but “a foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself.”(p.131) Mr. Byfield, the athletic ....