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A 3 page analysis of Sugar and other Stories, a collection of short fiction by A.S. Byatt. In this collection, Byatt explores the ramifications of the boundaries of imagination, the dynamics of language and the purposes of art. This work particularly explores the relationship of between narration and word use that demonstrates the pull toward symbolic representation, while simultaneously relating to a version of reality that resists form. No additional sources cited.
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to a version of reality that resists form. Byatt has always demonstrated a keen awareness that reality is a slippery article that can easily escape from language, and her continuing
struggle for accuracy is well demonstrated in this collection. In this collection of short fiction, Byatt intentionally blurs the line between art and reality. While these stories depict real life
situations on one level, they are also concerned with the art that is used to capture a given experience. This can be seen in that many of the characters in
these stories are extremely literary in their orientation, relating their experience to "what happens to people in books" (172). Within the stories, however, the ways in which Byatt explores the
intricacies of storytelling gives insight into her narration and is inseparable from the process of narration itself. The ordering of the eleven stories that make up this collection concocts
a literary confection that provides Byatts metaphor for the narration. The first four, "Racine and the Tablecloth," "Rose-colored Teacups," "The July Ghost," and "The Next Room" are linked by an
underlying theme that stresses the relationships between parent and child. "Racine and the Tablecloth" concerns a girls school and the power struggle that goes on behind its sheltering walls.
The central point to the story deals with making both moral and literary judgements and how this can entail the destructive power of language. The protagonist is a young girl,
Emily Bray. The other main character in the story is the head-mistress of the school, Emilys antagonist, Martha Crichton-Walker. The third main character, which reveals Byatts fascination with the process
of storytelling, is an imaginary Reader, for whom Emily writes her essays: He was dry and clear, he was all-knowing but not messily infinite. He kept his proportion and his
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