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Feng’s putative apartment number, this number can be read as a slang term indicating “forever.” It is evocative of its inhabitants.
Emily Dickinson
This American poet is referenced early and repeatedly in the text. As a canonical author, she can be taken as representative in some ways of America. Her reclusiveness and self-effacement also speak to the attitudes of her primary reader in the text.
William Faulkner
This American author is referenced early in the novel. His work is taken as representative of “stream-of-consciousness metaphorical crap” (1), making rejection of him also rejection of that model of writing.
Incense
A factor in many religious practices, this substance emits a smoke with particular smells when burned. Use of it implies a connection to the spiritual that tends to be enacted in the text.
Meimei
A cat bought by the protagonist’s father for her mother, this creature helped the...
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