Journal #4: The Confidence-Man COLLAPSE For today’s journal prompt, you have a c

Journal #4: The Confidence-Man
COLLAPSE
For today’s journal prompt, you have a c

Journal #4: The Confidence-Man
COLLAPSE
For today’s journal prompt, you have a choice: one respond to one of the following two prompts:
Option #1: Why does Melville digress into a discussion of originality and fiction (pp. 333-335)? What bearing does it have on the novel? Do you think there are multiple con artists or only one confidence man in The Confidence-Man? Option #2: Why does the Book of Sirach send the confidence man into a state of crisis (see p. 330 and pp. 339-341)? Why is he relieved to learn it belongs to the “uncanonical part” (341)?