Payment by Mary Gordon

1. What is Margaret's point of view about her situation and about Isabel? Can it be justified? How?
2. What is your moral evaluation of the case of Patricia Kiley and her mother, or, what is your moral evaluation of Isabel's view of this case?
3. Discuss Final Payments in terms of the following reason for avoiding romantic love (from Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur), “The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.”

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