Shout Dagoberto Gilb Summary

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In “Shout”, Dagoberto Gilb focuses his story on the emotions and mindset of his protagonist, a blue-collar laborer returning home from a hard day’s work in the extreme heat. While he looks to escape the toil of his labor, this man realizes that his home life does not provide the relief he desperately seeks and longs for at the end of the day. At home, the protagonist faces new set of burdens which are the complications of family life and the pressure of his main role as the provider of his household. Consequently, the author infuses a sense of volatility and instability in the story’s atmosphere, a mood that is ultimately symptomatic of the protagonist’s inability to separate the stresses of hard labor from his home life. By including these

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