Describe the conflict gawain faces in the castle?

What is the purposes of exposition in a story

The lines "original! we're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. we're like patterns stencilled on a wall. can't you and i strike out for ourselves, may? " reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century american literature?

(the black cat poem) where does the writer fail to support her points with evidence? what evidence from the story would you suggest adding to support these points?