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The first criterion of the modern short story is subtle characterization over a fast-paced plot. The short story The Doll’s House includes this very well. Multiple times during the story the author stops to develop characters and settings, that way the reader will be able to get a better understanding of what is happening. Manfield showed this well when Kezia noticed the lamp and went on to describe it, and Isabel only noticed the majority of the house, not the lamp. Another example is when the Kelvey sisters are first introduced. When they first appear, it is shown that they are obviously not wealthy like the other girls. Their clothes are in tatters, and they are always outcasts. This shows the details of the story instead of throwing the
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I have never been a good storyteller, instead of explaining what happened from start to finish I go on tangents, turning imaginary corners, leading the listener far from my original goal. I focus on the flower that I saw laying on the dresser instead of the man sitting beside it. A truly good short story is nothing like me. A short story is like a snowglobe, trapping a whole world behind glass pages, each snowflake placed there for a reason, each shake showing a different perspective of that same scene.

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The Doll House The first characteristic of a modern short story is that the story emphasizes subtle characterization rather than a fast-paced plot. A quote I used to back up this statement is “The lamps best of all, said Kezia” Kezia says this after Isabell commented on how small and irrelevant the lamp was in her eyes. In the text she even said it’s a “tiny lamp’, but not to Kezia. In Kezia’s eyes the lamp is the best part of the dollhouse. I think Kezia sees it as a symbol for what it really is and not just a little lamp taking up space in a massive dollhouse.

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