Nikki's Transformations

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The modern age is full of innovations but also social reforms and cultural integration. The sad story of Nikki begins when her “boyfriend” dumps her during high school. Those memories during that night at the docks in Canada has forever changed her emotionally and physically. The contemporary short story, “It would be different if”, by Maggie Mitchell, shows the pervasiveness of a broken heart seeking to mend itself back to normal by highlighting the emotional responses which has been affected by the perspective of Nikki. Ordinarily, Nikki’s perspective seemed to change with Jeff from wry to accepting as the story progressed after that night at the docks in Canada. Mitchell used the anxieties that haunted her to amplify what Nikki felt which

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