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New York City

This place is the site of a main character's many sexual transgressions, coming-of-age, and the opening of the world's possibilities.

Clinton, New York

This suburban area where a main character grows up symbolizes tradition, boredom, and being entrapped in a traditional gender role.

The Lily Playhouse

This theater - dilapidated, shabby, and perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy - is the first landing place of a main character when she gets to New York City, and a real home for the actors and artists who revolve through it over the years.

Vassar College

This higher education institution represents the traditional and expected path that is chosen for a main character and which that character roundly rejects in search of a less traditional, and more exciting, future.

Sewing

This skill and talent provide the means through which a main character makes many friends and supports herself...

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