I actually wrote an essay for uni in which I read the novel with the idea that Micah was insane and it was all her delusions. That does not change the fact that she's shaping her narrative. I was analyzing two other characters, canonically insane (Septimus from Mrs Dalloway and Paul Michel from Hallucinating Foucault) who are controlled by the narrative and give up, Micah's vision of reality, whether it matches physical reality or not, is absolutely under her control. So I think that does count as 'altering reality in some sense by telling stories about it'.
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Date: 2012-04-21 02:24 am (UTC)