Reading Response: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

“Apartment is more than setting.” In fact, many times residence could be the most important element that shapes the narrative. In a microscopic way, just like anyone of us displaying our truest and most comfortable selves in our homes, apartment plot is the best way to illustrate a person’s character and thoughts: how an officer worker return to his humble flat and reflect his depressing and suffocating daily life; or a secret agent having harmonious and warm family time in her ordinary cozy house, which establishes a sharp contrast and boundary between different scenarios. In a macroscopic way, apartment reflects domestic urbanism hence maps the protagonists’ identity and social class into their spatial location. Such technique is even more common nowadays with more high rise, modern residential housings with contemporary designs, emphasizing the social gap between the wealthy and the poor who live in slum areas with less glamorous exterior.

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