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Iron Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory Things seem like they'd be bad
enough in Age of Iron even without throwing a terminal disease
into the mix, wouldn't you say? So what's up with the fact that
Mrs. Curren has to be dying from cancer... Age of Iron, like
many of J.M. Coetzee's other novels, takes place in his native
South Africa. For many years (we're talking 50), South Africa
was ruled under a system of racial segregation called...
Narrator Point of View Mrs. Curren, an elderly woman dying of
cancer, tells her story in the first person. What's really cool
about the narrative technique in Age of Iron is that she's not
just yammering the story to an... J.M. Coetzee is known for
writing some pretty highbrow fiction, and Age of Iron stands as
a case in point. While this