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The story is conceived around the imaginative legend of Frau Sorge, with which the story ends. It is the story of a mother so poor and lonely that she had no one to act as godmother for her son except Dame Care, who offers to see that the boy grows up to be a good man who shall never go hungry if his
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The rending of the charm by the power of a woman's love and the solemn, but never tragic, quality of the story, are distinguishing characteristics of
Sudermann's work. As an art work it is the most perfect, and it is the one which shows least the wear and tear of a generation of social change. Those
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may be merely two ways of saying the same thing; namely, that in a writer who combines, as
Sudermann does, the qualities of a poet and a realist, the more highly imaginative works have a more permanent value than the controversial ones. Into this grim tale of
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peasant life, with its hint of autobiography in the spirit and the scene, if not in the story, Sudermann has infused something of the spirit of the epic: the narrative of a toiler battling against the forces of nature.
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