“What Cousin Tryphena did not know about the way the world outside of Hillsboro was run would have made a complete treatise on modern civilization. (Fisher 1195) In the short story, “A Drop in the Bucket”, by Dorothy Fisher, one of the main characters Tryphena lives in the town called Hillsboro. She has lived in this town for fifty-five years, and is overall shutout to the rest of the world. Jombastine another character moves into the town and he is somewhat of a socialist. He has a great influence on the life of Tryphena, teaching her the manifestation of the elite toward the less fortunate people. The point that Dorothy Fisher is trying to demonstrate to the readers is that even though a person cannot help the entire world economically, there are plenty of ways just to make a difference. Even, if it means just helping one person out.
Cousin Tryphena has never realized the pain and suffering of those impoverished in the United States of America. To her knowledge a person......

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Title: A Drop In The Bucket
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