"The age of clear answers was over. So was the age of characters and plots. Despite her journal sketches, she no longer really believed in characters. They were quaint devices that belonged to the nineteenth century. The very concept of character was founded on errors that modern psychology had exposed. Plots too were like rusted machinery whose wheels would no longer turn" (McEwan, 265).
This passage was interesting to me because Briony seemed to have changed so much sense we have last seen her and this is the first time that she mentions her love for writing at all. Her love for it has stayed, but it has changed significantly. Like the time she lives in she is moving in to a modern society that has been advanced by the beginning of the war. Briony, her writing, and the world around her is moving into a modern setting with industrialization and a large focus on the war instead of the arts. This is shown by her comparison of plots in a story to a rusted machinery that no longer served a purpose in the world they live in.
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