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Retrospective Reality Exploration
- Joyce Carol Oates explores how reality and emotions often become clearer only in retrospect, not in the moment. - She experiments with alternative realities in her novel to capture how people reassess life events with changed understanding.
Darkness Feels Closer Today
- Joyce Carol Oates finds darkness closer and more natural than lighter themes due to current crises like climate change and political division. - Open racism becoming mainstream shocked many white people who had been relatively sheltered from such blatant expressions.
Accidental Educational Shift
- Joyce Carol Oates experienced an accidental shift from a one-room schoolhouse to an affluent high school in an affluent suburb due to a change in local education laws. - This accident gave her access to advanced courses and peers heading to prestigious universities, profoundly shaping her education and outlook.