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In the novel, The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler deals with many different subjects, such as love, grieving, change, family, and guilt. She addresses these subjects throughout the novel, in many different scenes. One of these scenes, which I found to be the most helpful in understanding the novel, comes late in chapter twenty, at the very end of the novel, when Macon leaves Sara and goes back to Muriel ....
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.... control by deciding to leave Sarah, and return to Muriel, who he really loves. For the first time Macon is doing something different from what everyone expects from him.
After leaving the hotel, Macon's bag begins to weigh him down, and is twisting his back out of line, finally he decides that there is not anything in it worth going through the pain of carrying it, so he leaves it on the curb and moves on. I think that Tyler uses this as a symbol of Macon's relationship with Sarah. It seem ....
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