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empathize verb be compassionate, be in tune, be sorry for, be understanding, comfort, commiserate, express sympathy, feel for, grieve for, have pity for, identify with, pity, project, react, relate to, respond, share grief, share sorrow, show solace, show tenderness, soothe, sympathize, understand See also: sympathize How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the title story, the son of Holocaust survivors empathizes with the torture his parents must have experienced when he undergoes a series of agonizing dental procedures; hence referred pain becomes a metaphor for these fictional characters trapped by their own psychic pain. Instead, he empathizes, as when an older character observes of Adam's hard-partying 20-something generation, "You die too quickly to get anyone's attention. The characters face uncertainty: Peggy must start anew, without her piece of a husband; Lenny has to accept all dimensions of his newfound freedom; Amir, who empathizes with his father's plight more than Myles, hopes Kenya will value their love in spite of his earlier, short-lived affair. |
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