Charles Lamb: A Bachelor’s Complaint

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Explore Lamb’s specific complaints about married couples here. How can you tell the extent to which he is serious or is exaggerating for comic effect?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Would unmarried friends today offer similar complaints about their married friends and their children? Are there any additional complaints that are pertinent to contemporary life?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Write an essay in which you describe some chronic complaints of your own relating to the behavior of a certain group of people that you number among your friends.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

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