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In the excerpt Sophistication by Sherwood Anderson he talks about how me met a girl and he wishes that he could talk to her again. At one point in the text he is down and sees ghost in his mind and then he finds his happy place, Helen White. They both feel that their has been a change in each other since they last met, which means they grown up. The author uses tone to get the reader to understand how the characters are feeling. In the excerpt the tone is melancholy and foolishness. George Willard thinks he knows what to do then his ambitions amid regrets awake inside of him and everything he regretted creeps into his consciousness. For example "The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself

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