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How does the author delineate the difference between city and rural life?
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The author describes the rural life as one without social safety nets or cushy, white-collar jobs. These men and women are left to earn wages from their physical labor and to push on, come what may. This is a sharp contrast, Proulx implies, to the urban world of soup kitchens and welfare lines.
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