Lionel Trilling drew a connection between a novel about this character and the opening lines of “The Dry Salvages.” T.S. Eliot stated about this character that “There is no more solitary character in fiction,” in part referencing a passage that opens “I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.” He angrily states “All right then, I’ll go to hell!” after he tears up a letter to Miss Watson that would have revealed the location the escaped slave Jim. For 10 points, name this title character of a Mark Twain novel.
Lionel Trilling drew a connection between a novel about this character and the opening lines of “The Dry Salvages.” T.S. Eliot stated about this character that “There is no more solitary character in fiction,” in part referencing a passage that opens “I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.” He angrily states “All right then, I’ll go to hell!” after he tears up a letter to Miss Watson that would have revealed the location the escaped slave Jim. For 10 points, name this title character of a Mark Twain novel.
Lionel Trilling drew a connection between a novel about this character and the opening lines of “The Dry Salvages.”