The Good Earth

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what is a example of direct characterization?

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".... he saw a very old lady, her small, fine body clothed in lustrous, pearly grey satin, and upon the low bench be- side her a pipe of opium stood burning over its little lamp. She looked at him out of small, sharp, black eyes, as sunken and sharp as a monkey's eyes, in her thin and wrinkled face. The skin of her hand that held the pipe's end was stretched over her little bones as smooth and as yellow as the gilt upon an idol."

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The Good Earth, pg. 17