Exploration in Digital LiteratureMain MenuIntroduction to Exploration in Digital LiteratureWorks CitedAbout the Student AuthorsLucy Dunlop0f87c154df9d1f5b9c9db43bf755c92458e4029aChristina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0Deena Lang131c436bb0b401aee393cec40c25d6b298e0d091Amelia Tan072c06bdfc7e7ce98f28891a102d135bb24f1261
Pinning Down Information
12019-11-10T14:51:04-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f03556811plain2019-11-14T13:59:53-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0While using the needles to pin the cloth down, the reader learns that the narrator enrolled in her mother's dressmaking classes even though the narrator did not actually want to be in the classes, or more specifically, she "never wanted to follow the pattern". The reader also learns that the narrator's mother consistently tailored clothes to be too small for the narrator and her sister, causing them to have to endure "too tight waistbands" and bursting "hooks and eyes and buttons". These memoirs help the reader explore the narrator's past relationship with her mother, revealing it as being characterized by constraint. This mother-daughter relationship seems to be constraining because the narrator felt a pressure to take her mother's classes even though she had no desire to and she was physically constrained by her own clothing. Based on this information, it seems that the narrator tried to fit into a mold created by her mother, so the mechanics of having to pin cloth down can serve as a metaphor for the way that the narrator felt pinned to a mold that her mother had created for her (Chew and Mitchell).
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12019-11-10T13:43:29-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0Fitting the Pattern IntroductionChristina Dang22Fitting the Patternplain2019-11-14T19:40:36-08:00Christina Dang16f8741b7c1912c88412ac3ecd3d51712dc3f3f0
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1media/pin_thumb.png2019-11-10T15:04:01-08:00Pinning Down Information Photo1Screenshot from "Fitting the Pattern" by Christine Wilksmedia/pin.pngplain2019-11-10T15:04:01-08:00