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"grapplings with misplace worth and identity"

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"The Master, showed her three earlier lives to provide an insight into her grapplings with misplace worth and identity in relation to others"

I know it is about her past lives but my question is "grappling with misplace worth and identity in" .

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Category: Language

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    To grapple means to struggle. It can be used in a physical sense - "the two men grappled (wrestled) with each other", but in this case it it talking about an emotional struggle.

    So I think the sentence is talking about her struggle with her feelings about the kind of person she is, her self-worth. Many of us have these kinds of struggles at some time in our lives: we worry about our abilities and our behavior and we are fearful that we are not as good as other people.

    thanks i didn't know that grapple has two different meaning
    one is grapple with somebody its clear = wrestle
    but another meaning was new for me = trying to understand something difficult
    The government has to grapple with the problems of unemployment.

    i don't know

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