Vanessa is ten in the first three stories, and eleven or twelve in many others. In briefer incidents, she is a small child, an older adolescent, or young adult. The characters of the family members do not change, although their situations do, and this serves to dramatize changes within Vanessa herself, who matures within the narrative from a child’s awareness –certain, comforting, self-centred, but also ignorant of other people’s stats of mind and so powerless in action Eto an adult understanding of the confusing, complex and unfair realities that have produced her. This unders

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