By close reference to "More Than Just The Disease", show what feelings you have for Neil in the course of the story. What lessons do you suppose he has learned by the end of it?



In the story, "More than Just the Disease", Neil who was away from home for a holiday with the Middleton family experienced and learned much. The best part was how Neil managed to take the first step of overcoming his shyness, not to "suffer from more than just the disease".



At the start of the story, we come face to face with the dominance of Neil's mother. "Be tidy at all times, then no one can surprise you" and "A little too ornate for my taste-vulgar almost" shows that Neil's mother does not just exist in planning everything for him("although he had been reluctant because of this very thing, she had insisted he could not turn down an invitation from the doctor's family"), she had embedded herself in Neil's thoughts, even to the end of the story like, "Close your......

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Title: More Than Just The Disease
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