ENGL 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Flash Fiction, Dollhouse
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Break it down: "story" (3-7); "break it down" (20-30); "in a house besieged" (81); "the mother" (119); "problem" (154). The writing style is what is known as flash fiction. Problem mathematical equation sense with emotional tension. Similar style to hemmingway by ommiting details. In a house besieged man and woman arguing in a marriage. In a house besieged lived a man and a woman, from where they cowered in the kitchen the man and woman heard small explosions. The wind, said the woman. hunters, said the man. The woman wanted to go home, but she was already home, there in the middle of the country in a house besieged. Not rooted in reality, but a state of emotion. Paradox: not external attack, but internal between an and woman. Commentary on critics of flash fiction? (novel rather than a story) Mention of other parent, recipient of gift. At the end the girl does follow the mother"s orders.
