ENG214H5 Lecture Notes - Short Story Cycle, Stamp Collecting
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November 7 th /12 shift from 3rd person to 1st person how this shift engages these questions of voice and language into more complex ways. The importance of food in the short story cycle as a whole. Food is serving a really important function as specific cultural aspects. Characters who tell stories and the power you get from storytelling. Derives a kind of power she doesn"t have in other aspects of her life. Stir the pot and make everybody hungry. Leave your home and go somewhere else. But she gets that power from her internal life. Ghost framed as seduction, a figure of desire. For the things like family and belonging. Jacqueline is thought to be the ghost. Implicit elevation from floor to the same level as the mistress. Momentary respite from living so close to the floor. She is validated and gains power through her storytelling. Unwilling to be a storyteller and tell stories about her husband.
