Slater’s Doll Emporium on Regent Street, not only stigmatises and restrains herself because of her family’s inculcation but also society’s inbred values of the underpinning of gender. Iris, the heroine and “fairer sex” of the novel, the “apprentice” of Mrs. Every character in this novel is trapped in his or her station, constraints and conventions, and they all somehow involuntarily conform to the public and societies’ values. Indeed, this book is captivating and engrossing. She has escaped one half of herself for another.” She has suffocated her, until Iris does not know where she ends and this image begins. The woman in the painting has become her twin, like her and yet nothing like her. She starts to see it not as a celebration, but as a trap which has snapped around her. She feels a weight within her, a flattening. “She gazes at the canvas again, at the tenderness in her expression, the passivity of her unsmiling face.
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