ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Katherine Mansfield
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Dollhouses and short fiction: dollhouses allow us to see things more clearly, a smaller version of a larger story. We are lured into the miniature because it is part of the whole view. Smaller spaces = concentration of attention: a house is like a story. It has enclosed spaces and connects each space with another. Class and belonging: you cannot enter it because you are too large to enter. This shows that people seem to get things wrong. Redemptive influence: an inner space with the revelation of a reality. Sign of class differences, the force demonstrates unwillingness. The lamp central symbol: multiple meanings: