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    Sophie's choice

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    • 1. used in reference to a difficult situation in which a person must choose between two equally deserving alternatives: "for environmentalists, it's something of a Sophie's choice: do we want clean, smog-free air at the local level or lower greenhouse gas emissions at the global level?"

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  2. Apr 25, 2014 · Learn how Meryl Streep and a young actress portrayed a mother's agonizing choice in the Holocaust drama. Watch a clip from a roundtable discussion with the cast and crew of Sophie's Choice Blu-ray.

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  3. Sophie’s choice is a phrase from a novel and a film about a mother who must choose between her two children in a Nazi camp. It can also describe any impossible or undesirable decision with no good outcome.

  4. Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. The author's last novel, it concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn : Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South , Jewish scientist Nathan Landau, and his lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps , whom Stingo befriends.

  5. Share Cite. One possible meaning of William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice is that the past is often very difficult to leave in the past -- especially when the past involves difficult and even ...

  6. Sophie's Choice is a 1982 psychological drama directed and written by Alan J. Pakula, adapted from William Styron's 1979 novel of the same name. The film stars Meryl Streep as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowska, a Polish immigrant to America with a dark secret from her past who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover Nathan ( Kevin Kline in his feature film debut), and young ...

  7. Sophie’s Choice, novel by William Styron, published in 1979, that examines the historical, moral, and psychological ramifications of the Holocaust through the tragic life of a Roman Catholic survivor of Auschwitz. An award-winning film adaptation starring Meryl Streep was released in 1982. Set in.

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  9. Sophie's Choice is a novel by William Styron that uses allegory to explore the impact of the Holocaust on its survivors. The novel depicts the horrors of the concentration camp, the psychological trauma of the characters, and the ethical questions of guilt and choice.

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