What does "so little was ... anymore" mean?
She held her hands out and dropped her fingertips onto the paneling before drawing her body in and pressing it against the wood. The wall was cool, it was solid, it was real. So little was solid and real anymore.
Hi, everyone. I don't understand the last part of the quote "So little was solid and real anymore". Does it mean "the wall wasn't quite solid and real"?
Thank you for your help.
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"So little was solid and real anymore" means that she thinks there are few things out there in the world that were solid and real, unlike this wall that was so solid and real.
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I think this phrase is not to be taken literally. Instead, it implies that there was very little that she could rely on any more. I am guessing that she has had an emotional trauma of some kind?
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"So little" in this sentence means the same as "not much"
The author could have made the meaning clearer by saying "not much was solid and real any more"
Gordon
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I guess it means, that there were not so many things that the hero could still touch (solid) and that was real and the wall was one of this few things.
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