‘I just looked at the still life over the tea table,’ says the narrator. What does she mean by ‘still life’? What prompted her to make this remark?

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When the little girl told the narrator to look at the antiques, she looked at the still life over the tea- table. Objets that held her memories, that were a part of her, but still immovable and not alive. 'Still life' here meant something which belonged to the past and has remained in the past and has no value in the present. The antiques in the little girl's life were connected to the narrator;s past. But they have no connection whatsoever to her present life. 

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