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In ‘Interference’, the narrative uses specific features to convey both internal and external human suffering from the narrator’s perspective as she watches her mother’s dementia progress. The extended metaphor of “static” and failing a “signal” symbolises the gradual deterioration of the mother’s m…

In ‘Interference’, the narrative uses specific features to convey both internal and external human suffering from the narrator’s perspective as she watches her mother’s dementia progress. The extended metaphor of “static” and failing a “signal” symbolises the gradual deterioration of the mother’s memory and identity. As the narrator observes that “the signal weakens” while the “static gains its strength,” dementia is depicted as an overpowering force that disrupts communication and connection be