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Paper Instructions:

The narrator of Julian Barnes’s short story “The Dream” seems upset when
Margaret tells him that people like him tend to want to “die off” sooner than
others in “Heaven” (pp. 302-304). Why do you think the narrator is upset by this?
If everyone exists in this Heaven for as long as they want to, why would lasting
longer than others be important? Write an essay in which you discuss why the
length of time one exists in the Heaven of the story is and/or is not important.