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A Collection of Potential Someones

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  • Dec 4, 2018

One of the characters in popular contemporary novelist Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom, Joey Berglund, reflects on life and identity by referring to selfhood as “a collection of contradictory potential someones.”

Adapted by Stuart Strachan Jr., from Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Adapted by Stuart Strachan Jr., from Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.