In The Man who Shot Liberty Valence, newspaperman Maxwell Scott tells Ransom Stoddard that he will not publish the “real” story of Liberty Valence’s death, asserting “when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Please address this quote in relation to how the storyteller tells his story in Inexcusable, If I Don’t Six, and Big Fan. Are there truths in each story that the characters selectively choose to avoid or ignore in favor of a more convenient or romantic legend? How do these choices affect the characters in the long run – do they carry the choices around for years like baggage, or do they fully convince themselves that the legend is fact? Does the choice to embrace either fact or legend affect the lives of the impacted character in other ways? How would the lives of the people around them have changed if the community had accepted fact instead of legend or legend instead of fact?
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