The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror

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by Joyce Carol Oates

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I really didn't understand The Doll-Master. Can someone explains what the dolls are meant to represent or what on Earth is going on with them?

Dawn

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Okay, it may just be me not retaining any of the the info from the story but what was the "creepy" part of Soldier? None of it made sense to me.

Andy

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Can anyone explain about the second story "Soldier"? There are various typos of "Brandon Schrank". Is there any meaning of it, so to speak, confusion or insecureness of his identity? His various wrong names are too stressed, so it's hard to ignore.

Morgan And what was in the box at the end??

I didn't understand the ending of the second story, where Brandon opens a mail for "Branton". Is the mail still meant for him or is the mail sent to a wrong person?

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