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The Doll House By Keze

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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. The second characteristic of a modern short story is that the story implies rather than states facts and psychological truths. For example I used these two quotes to back up this
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