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An Exploration on the Resistances of the Characters in Small-town Literature
Authors: krispinchan
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In small-town literature, small town is sometimes symbolized as a trap, or metaphorized
as an iron house or a madhouse, imprisoning the characters in it. In turn, all those characters
endeavor to resist or rebel against such a capture or fetter in various ways. Their ways of deviance
can be represented by imagination or fantasy, body or sex, escape or leave and reformation or
revolution, which can be narrated as a conflict between the individual and community of small
towns. From the conflict, we can read between the lines hero’s or heroine’s aspirations in small-
town society.