![]() ![]() This question is surely not a life-or-death decision, but the amount of misery it has produced among bright young graduates does remind me of the existentialist knots that often surface in Wolff’s stories. ![]() Many elite college students in America face a less extreme moral dilemma: whether they -intelligent, high-achieving students - should pursue lucrative offers in Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the like, or follow their true calling-which might not necessarily mean financial data-crunching and manufacturing flawless PowerPoint slides for corporate clients. ![]() In "The Night in Question," as with a few of Tobias Wolff’s other short stories, there was a man mired in a moral quandary: he had to choose whether to prevent a train from crashing into the river or to save his little son from a fatal engine room nearby. ![]()
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