{"id":154,"date":"2017-02-07T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=154"},"modified":"2017-02-07T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:10:27","slug":"alexandras-understanding-of-death-in-section-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-novel\/alexandras-understanding-of-death-in-section-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra&#8217;s Understanding of Death in Section Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the death of her brother and close friend, Alexandra grapples with the idea of death. She wonders if death is similar to the darkness you experience before you&#8217;re born. Subsequently, as Alexandra lays in bed, she feels tired of life and perhaps even envious of her dead brother.\u00a0These feelings cause Alexandra to conclude that Frank, not the murder victims, was &#8220;paying the heaviest penalty&#8221; (112). Moreover, seeing Frank only furthers her &#8220;disgust of life&#8221; (118). Thus, her somewhat\u00a0positive view of death\u00a0seems to help propel her sympathy for Frank in this section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the death of her brother and close friend, Alexandra grapples with the idea of death. She wonders if death is similar to the darkness you experience before you&#8217;re born. Subsequently, as Alexandra lays in bed, she feels tired of life and perhaps even envious of her dead brother.\u00a0These feelings cause Alexandra to conclude that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-willa-cather-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}