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Part 5, Chapter 9
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Razor’s Edge, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Wisdom and the Meaning of Life
Social Norms and Conformity
Trauma and Self-Destruction
Snobbishness, Social Status, and Cosmopolitanism
Truth and the Problem of Evil
Summary
Analysis
Somerset warns the reader that this next section of the book will consist only of a conversation he had with Larry. If the reader wants to skip it then, Somerset writes, they should feel free to. But this conversation is also the main reason he wrote the book, Somerset says.
Somerset highlights the importance of the conversation he is about to have with Larry, clarifying that it may not advance the novel’s plot while simultaneously creating an air of suspense around what Larry might say.
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