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Researching a specific point for my book
Hello, good afternoon, I trust you are well.
Can anyone enlighten me please. A character I have in mind is in the habit of calling their home 'an apartment'. For years this character has called this home 'a flat.' This change in their understanding came about in the last four years.
The home itself has not changed. It is still, as I would say, a flat, a one bedroomed place with a kitchen in the living room, a small hall and a bath room. It is in a block of other similar units.
What do you think - apartment or flat? And why would the character change their title for where they live?
Thanks.
Comments
The size isn't important except in England, where a "no-separate-bedroom" flat might be called a bedsit - short for bed-sitting-room.
But perhaps Dora's character is trying to big himself/herself up in the eyes of other people- wants to give a different impression by using apartment rather than flat...
Something about your character has changed or developed, hence their now calling their flat an apartment.
I don't think it's a change for the better, if they're struggling with a pretence about what they're not rather than accepting who they are.
I think it's all about not being happy in their natural skin which must be a difficult state of being. Don't think I could live like that, always having to check on myself I'm behaving correctly.
Demonstrates the character has become ashamed of who they are for some reason. I wonder what boundaries and pressures have been put on them to make them think who they are is not acceptable?
I will enjoy turning that one over in my mind.
Thanks for your help.
(this has reminded me of an incident some years ago when I managed to refer to a condominium, or condo, as a condom "> )
Tbh, S&M, this character is certainly having illusions that's for sure.
I have this image of you in a surveillance vehicle, listening to this person for four years in which they evade all attempts to penetrate their character, then they get careless, they let slip the bombshell 'apartment'. At last you have the key to their story but wtf does it mean?