... refers to her memories and discovers that her family has granted her some everyday decencies -privacy, dignity, respect, and self-respect, comfort •and she has taken them for granted. Jon Kertzer quoted "Margaret Laurence has given Vanessa's world lasting life by and exercise of creative imagination •(Journal of Canadian Studies) Vanessa clings to the comforting and self-absorbed world ... ...

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