"All Gone"

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"All Gone" vividly demonstrates author Stephen Dixon's idea that fiction is a place where one does not know what he will encounter. The metaphor for fiction is the city, in which the story is set. The paper examines setting, literary techniques and character relations in this story.

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"There are virtually no relationships between characters in this story. The strongest relationship had been the one between Eliot and Maria, but that is gone. Yet, a story emerges nonetheless. The reader becomes involved in Maria's quest. He begins to wonder what will develop between Maria and Vaughn, who has expressed enough interest in her to make it look like some relationship will develop. When he stops coming to the station, we feel a little disappointed. The turning point of the story is when Maria decides to stop going to the station."

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