"Time" by Nadezha Teffi

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The paper analyzes a story by Nadezha Teffi, entitled "Time". The paper discusses the simple story about several characters in a restaurant who observe a group of older women at a table nearby. The paper relates that the "main" older woman is particularly repellent, but is revealed to be a woman that one of the characters idealized in the past. The paper establishes and develops a discrepancy between the past and present.

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"Nadezha Teffi's short story is a deceptively simple one, in which social commentary and comedy are both tacit and embodied in a simple interaction between characters in a restaurant. Teffi's title, "Time" is like an arrow pointing to the theme of the work and allows us to reach a deeper interpretation than we otherwise could. Moreover, this theme - the passage of time and its effects - has a wider application than meets the eye. That is, it can be applied to the society described in this story as well as to an individual character, and this allows for a deeper social analysis of Teffi's story."

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