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Visitation: Chapter 23
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in NW, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Class Identity and Social Mobility
Geography and Human Connection
Sex and Relationships
Altruism
Summary
Analysis
When Leah goes to pick up her developed film at the pharmacy, they have initially misplaced it. When the pharmacist finally gives her the photos, she doesn’t remember taking them. Two of the photos have Shar in them. The pharmacist apologizes.
When Leah tells Michel about the photo mix-up, he doesn’t sound surprised, which infuriates her. She thinks it’s crazy that Shar’s photos somehow ended up in her envelope, but she realizes that maybe Michel doesn’t believe her because she’s lied about so many other things recently.
The incident of the photo mix-up goes unexplained. Leah wants to read greater significance into the event, but she’s not sure what exactly it means. Despite being a large region of the city, Northwest London is also small enough that it keeps forcing residents together in unexpected ways.
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