Being a hobo is produced in this little vignette by the experience of seeing a hobo get pie from your mother.

当流浪汉是受了小时候经历的影响,就是看到一个流浪汉从妈妈那儿得到了一块派。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If there is a balance of power between the writer and the reader in this little vignette, the power really I think finally resides with the writer.

如果作者和读者之间,存在力量平衡的话,我觉得最后力量肯定归于作者一方。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选