<em>Which of the following best describes Elinor's reaction considered within the context of the whole novel?</em>
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<h3><u>"Perhaps you do not know—you may not have heard that my brother is lately married to—to the youngest—to Miss Lucy Steele."</u></h3><h3><u /></h3><h3><u>His words were echoed with unspeakable astonishment by all but Elinor, who sat with her head leaning over her work, in a state of such agitation as made her hardly know where she was.</u></h3><h3><u /></h3><h3><u>"Yes," said he, "they were married last week, and are now at Dawlish."</u></h3><h3><u /></h3><h3><u>Elinor could sit it no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease. (Sense and Sensibility, chapter 48, pp. 42–43)</u></h3>
Magical realism, as the name itself suggests, is a type of predominantly realistic writing that contains some supernatural, or <em>magical </em>elements as well. Even though it <em>mostly </em>refers to Latin American literature, there are many examples of magical realism in European literature as well, such as Bulgakov's <em>The Master and Margarita </em>or Kafka's <em>The Metamorphosis. </em>
In <em>The Metamorphosis, </em>the protagonist Gregor suddenly turns into a cockroach, which is obviously magical. The realism is the fact that his transformation is a symbol of his routine, unhappy life.
