In Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Foreigner," the small Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing is described, both in terms of its own regional past and the possibility of changes due to the coming modern age. Mrs. Todd is one of the primary vehicles by which Dunnet Landing's past is both elucidated and glamorized; she absolutely adores telling stories about her neighbors and other members of the community, ostensibly making her trade in local color. Todd herself is a collector of past memories and stories, as she seems to collect them in order to protect them from being lost in modernity.
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