The author uses the natural world to describe situations, feelings and emotions. The short story of “The Fly Paper” by Elizabeth Taylor is a literary fiction. The story concerns an eleven years old, Sylvia, who is on her way to a music lesson when she gets disturbed by a creepy guy.
The Author includes a fly paper in the story to show how Sylvia is feeling. “She stared up at a fly-paper hanging in the windows. The only disconcerting thing in the room”. We are meant to understand that Sylvia is identifying herself as “the fly paper”. What really means by this is that the character feels out of place in the house with the kind, old lady. Elizabeth Taylor has used the character of the fly paper to say that Sylvia is feeling unsettled in this
The Author includes a fly paper in the story to show how Sylvia is feeling. “She stared up at a fly-paper hanging in the windows. The only disconcerting thing in the room”. We are meant to understand that Sylvia is identifying herself as “the fly paper”. What really means by this is that the character feels out of place in the house with the kind, old lady. Elizabeth Taylor has used the character of the fly paper to say that Sylvia is feeling unsettled in this