Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies

Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies

Reading Mind in Spatial Notions through Fiction in Colours and Furniture of Susan Schaeffer’s Falling and Anya.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Department of English, Bharathiar University P.G Extension and Research Centre, Erode
Abstract
Spatial theories focus on the physical contents of images and art in any human mind, each description of self is an estimated encouragement of the social self that happened in evolution. The same is influenced by the culture and family set up in the initial stages of life until a person receives world knowledge. The knowledge gained then plays a more prevalent role than in the past self, yet the group consciousness stays the same. The study extends mental health studies, especially when the group’s authenticities are generated toward individual knowledge. It is evidenced through the depiction of colours, specifically with the interior and historic sensibility through furniture. In the selected writings of Susan Schaeffer, the work Falling speaks of colours to express relationships, success, failures, history, ethnicity, the boredom of life, and the crisis of living. In Anya, it speaks of the long family lineage one holds with the crisis of individual life and becoming a newer self. Schaffer in both texts represent the characters in crisis by asking personal questions about the historical evolution of the Jewish community. To emphasize the post-war crisis and especially the change of relationship in the social view is visible by attempting to add certain colours and furniture to represent lineage and past that withhold the individuals. The two main characters connected to this element are Elizabeth from Falling and Anya from Anya


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Available Online from 26 August 2025